LOS ANGELES — Nick Edwards knows the Los Angeles Rams’ Cooper Kupp not as the most efficient receiving threat in the N.F.L., but as the scrawny, overlooked freshman at Eastern Washington who was obsessed with eating eggs to add muscle mass.
Edwards, now the offensive coordinator at California Polytechnic State University, was Kupp’s teammate at Eastern Washington as a senior in 2012 while Kupp was a redshirt freshman. Two years later, Edwards returned as Kupp’s position coach. From afar, he has watched Kupp, a third-round draft pick in 2017, develop into a masterful route runner, a sure-handed catcher and a skillful blocker.