Puka Nacua has been playing at an elite level over the past few seasons, and fans and analysts surely don’t want to see him step away anytime soon. He has been crushing it on the field right now, yet he’s only 24 and already one of the league’s top receivers. But there is another sport apart from football that fascinates the player. Appearing on Julian Edelman’s podcast, Games with Names, Nacua revealed his post-football dream, which is playing basketball overseas! 

He joked about wanting to go to a lesser-known country during his 30s, buy a stake in the team, and basically become a player-coach-owner. As he put it: “I’m sure I could go to another country that only 25% of the world’s ever heard before. Get ownership in the team, and I’m getting 25 shots up a night. I’m gonna be the coach. I’m gonna sub my own minutes in. And then I’m gonna make sure that we’re getting ticket sales at the end of them. I try to work some actual business.”

Through the first four games of the 2025 season, he’s leading the entire NFL in catches (42) and receiving yards (503), even putting up a career-high 170 yards in a recent Rams win. 

So, while he’s completely focused on football for the next several years, Nacua has a fun, ambitious side to undertake the basketball hustle waiting for him after his NFL career wraps up. But until the age of 30, he will remain with the NFL. And this season, Nacua is hitting peak numbers already.

Puka Nacua’s setting the standard this season 

Puka Nacua recently tied the all-time NFL record for the most receptions through a season’s first four games. That puts him right alongside elite company: Cooper Kupp and Michael Thomas, all with 42 catches. Even more incredibly, he’s only the third player in league history to haul in at least eight receptions in each of his team’s first four matchups. Such steady performance is unheard of.

Nacua’s big-yardage games are just as stunning. Last Sunday, with 170 receiving yards, Nacua set a new regular-season career-high. “He’s got a lot more tools than what people realize,” said WR Davante Adams. “Great hands and strong at the catch point, and he’s obviously really tough to bring down once he’s running with the ball.” The Los Angeles Rams won the match against the Indianapolis Colts with a score of 27-20. If he can keep up this pace for a full 17-game season, he won’t just break the NFL’s single-season records; he’ll absolutely shatter them, cruising past the current marks of 149 receptions and 1,964 yards.

The only bad news that came in during the week 4 game against the Indianapolis Colts was when Nacua went down with an apparent injury in the third quarter and had to leave the field. Thankfully, the scare didn’t last long, and he returned to the game shortly after. The team hasn’t given an official injury update yet. 

From breaking records in the NFL to dreaming of basketball glory abroad, how far can Puka Nacua’s game really go?