{"id":4358,"date":"2025-09-28T23:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:11:23","slug":"rams-oc-says-tutu-atwell-has-been-extremely-valuable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4358","title":{"rendered":"Rams OC says Tutu Atwell has &#8216;been extremely valuable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<hr class=\"colorbar section-sports\" \/>\n<h2 class=\"display-5 subhead spacer-small\">&#8216;His time is going to come. I don&#8217;t know when, but it will<br \/>\ncome.&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Even after signing a $10 million contract with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> this year, Tutu Atwell hasn\u2019t gotten much of a chance to contribute. He\u2019s playing around 40% of the offensive snaps, but he\u2019s been targeted just three times and has <a href=\"https:\/\/theramswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2025\/09\/22\/rams-tutu-atwell-contract-snaps-receiving-yards\/86294036007\/\">one catch for 4 yards<\/a> with one interception thrown by Matthew Stafford.<\/p>\n<p>Atwell was expected to have a significantly bigger role in 2025 not only because of his contract, but because the door at WR3 was wide open. His numbers are quite disappointing through three games <a href=\"https:\/\/theramswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2025\/09\/23\/rams-sean-mcvay-tutu-atwell-role-snaps\/86306686007\/\">but both Sean McVay<\/a> and offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur believe his time will come.<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur said Thursday that Atwell has still \u201cbeen extremely valuable&#8221; despite only having one catch because of the attention his speed commands from defenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTutu&#8217;s doing everything that&#8217;s being asked within the framework of each and every single play,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cFor the first three weeks, I couldn&#8217;t ask for more in the way he approaches it and what he does. Now, I know the stat sheet doesn&#8217;t show it, but I do think he&#8217;s been extremely valuable in other ways right now and in the pass game because of the threat that he poses. It&#8217;s a 17-game season, hopefully more for us. There&#8217;s a long way to go. We are at the start of this marathon right now and you guys have all seen Tutu perform at a high level. His time is going to come. I don&#8217;t know when, but it will come. I believe in that guy and more importantly, his teammates do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atwell has been splitting time with Jordan Whittington as the third receiver behind Puka Nacua and Davante Adams, though neither player has seen many targets thrown their way. Of Stafford\u2019s 95 pass attempts this season, Nacua has 35 targets and Adams has 29, accounting for 67% of the Rams\u2019 targets together.<\/p>\n<p>Whittington has two more targets than Atwell, coming into Week 4 with just five passes thrown his way, but he\u2019s turned them into four catches for 49 yards and is a much better blocker than Atwell.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams will eventually find ways to get Atwell involved, but like LaFleur said, it\u2019s unclear when that will happen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theramswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2025\/09\/26\/rams-tutu-atwell-mike-lafleur-value-offense\/86364767007\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;His time is going to come. I don&#8217;t know when, but it will come.&#8217; Even after signing a $10 million contract with the Los Angeles Rams this year, Tutu Atwell hasn\u2019t gotten much of a chance to contribute. He\u2019s playing around 40% of the offensive snaps, but he\u2019s been targeted just three times and has &#8230; <a title=\"Rams OC says Tutu Atwell has &#8216;been extremely valuable&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4358\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rams OC says Tutu Atwell has &#8216;been extremely valuable&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rams-OC-says-Tutu-Atwell-has-been-extremely-valuable.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}