Cooper Kupp: 'Full Circle Moment' to Sign Seahawks Contract in NFL FA After Rams Exit

Cooper Kupp is coming home to Washington.

The wide receiver who is from Yakima, Washington, and played collegiately at Eastern Washington agreed to a three-year, $45 million deal with the Seattle Seahawks this offseason after parting ways with the Los Angeles Rams and opened up about what the homecoming means to him.

"It's a full-circle moment," he said during a Tuesday interview with NFL Network. "… It's been really cool. Just seeing the community here, the people that we know here already. … It's a really cool, full-circle moment."

Kupp is certainly familiar with the NFC West after playing for the Rams for the first eight years of his career.

One of those seasons was an all-time showing in 2021 when he led the league in catches (145), receiving yards (1,947) and touchdown catches (16) as the Offensive Player of the Year. He also won the Super Bowl MVP that season, cementing his place in Rams history.

Yet he has dealt with durability issues since that season and may have something to prove again as he returns to his home state.

Seattle would surely love a motivated Kupp putting up big numbers considering it lost wide receivers DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett this offseason. It needed another weapon outside of Jaxon Smith-Njigba and jumped at the chance to add a veteran leader like Kupp.

He should have plenty of space playing alongside Smith-Njigba and will provide a security blanket for new Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold.

And he will do it all in front of fans from his home state.