Cooper Kupp Camp Update — August 23: Quiet Week While the Room Thins
2026 NFL Season · Sunday, Aug 23
Kupp produced no individual notes in the accessed Nashville-week coverage — no injury listing, no charted reps. Around him the receiver room lost Jake Bobo for the season and went another week without Tory Horton.
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Cooper Kupp had a week without an individual entry in the accessed coverage — not on any injury list, not in the joint-practice charting from Nashville, where the receiver reports belonged to Jaxon Smith-Njigba's sideline wins and Rashid Shaheed's toughness rep. For a 33-year-old established starter three weeks from a season opener, an August of no news is the neutral kind.
The room around him is a different story. Jake Bobo hurt his knee attempting a leaping catch in Friday's joint practice and was placed on injured reserve Saturday, ending his season, per John Boyle at the team's website. Tory Horton missed practice time earlier in the week while "working through some things," per Mike Macdonald via Cameron Van Til at Seattle Sports. Seattle signed Julian Hicks to fill the open spot. None of that touches Kupp's job directly, but a receiver room that loses depth in August leans harder on the veterans it kept.
Back in June the preview's single question was whether the second-receiver role survives another year of calendar at 33, and that question now waits for the games. Seattle plays the Titans today in Nashville after this episode is filed, and the finale follows before Sunday's cutdown. What to watch: whether Kupp gets any preseason snaps at all before the New England opener, and where he lines up if the first offense plays a series. We'll check after cut day.
_Data via nflverse._
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