Rams’ Puka Nacua shakes off drop to make game-changing pass breakup

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was the type of play that Puka Nacua has made look routine this year. Go ball, perfect throw from Matthew Stafford, likely ending in a touchdown to put the Rams up 10 before halftime in their wild-card round playoff game against the Carolina Panthers.

Instead, the unthinkable: Nacua dropped the pass, the ball bouncing off his reliable hands. Nacua lay on the turf at Bank of America Stadium, not in physical pain but instead in mental anguish.

“I feel like those...