Cooper: Foot injury 'affected my whole game' in rookie season

Amari Cooper's 1,070 receiving yards as a rookie is even more impressive than you thought.

The Oakland Raiders' 2015 first-round pick battled a late-season foot injury that he says "affected" his entire game. Apparently so much that Cooper never bothered watching his first-year tape because, despite being the NFL's top rookie pass-catcher, "I really wasn't myself".

"I think it affected everything. Me being a receiver, it affected my whole game," Cooper told KGMZ radio, according to NFL.com's Chris Wesseling. "Talk about a foot injury, you can't release how you want to, you can't come out of your breaks how you want to. You can only get open in two ways, off of the line or out of your breaks."

After suffering the injury during preparations for Week 14, Cooper made the Pro Bowl as a rookie, though he questioned whether or not he was deserving. The 22-year-old was also hampered by a quad injury suffered in mid-November.

If he stays healthy this year, Cooper is set for a big second season with the Raiders, off to a dedicated start with franchise quarterback Derek Carr as his training camp roommate.

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