SAN DIEGO — Derek Carr threw it high and deep, Amari Cooper ran to it, and so what if Chargers safety Jimmy Wilson was right there, too?

“That was a total please-catch-it kind of deal,” Carr explained later of the second-quarter play.

Cooper timed his leap perfectly, caught the ball for a 44-yard gain on third-and-14, and set up a field goal to put the Raiders up 23-3.

And Cooper caught just about everything else Carr threw him on Sunday.

“You know, it was third-and-long, Derek gave him the shot — we call those 50-50 balls,” coach Jack Del Rio said. “When you have a player with the ability Amari has, maybe it’s a little better odds than that.”

In all, Cooper totaled five catches for 133 yards on six overall targets in the Raiders’ 37-29 victory at Qualcomm Stadium on Sunday.

A few minutes after the 44-yard hookup, Carr threw it to Cooper in the left flat and Cooper burst past everybody, juked Wilson, and sprinted into the end zone for a 52-yard touchdown.

“It was just a perfect play,” Cooper said. “When I caught the ball I saw that I had a lot of room.

“I kind of began to stumble, and when I got my footing back, I saw the guys coming and I just made some moves on them.”

This would seem more remarkable, except that Cooper is doing this just about every game in his rookie season, after the Raiders took him fourth overall in the draft.

This was his third 100-yard-plus receiving game this season. Cooper has 519 receiving yards in his first six games, becoming only the third rookie since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger to total that many in his first six contests.

The others: Anquan Boldin and Randy Moss.

“He’s amazing; he’s awesome,” Carr said. “He’s one of the best in this league.

“Obviously because he’s a rookie and hasn’t done it for a certain amount of time, that’s what people will say. But he’s one of the best.”

Cooper is a quiet guy, doesn’t show much emotion on the sidelines or in the locker room, but he admitted he smiled after the touchdown.

And now Cooper is putting up numbers to rival anybody, rookie or not.

“I’m just going to keep working hard, keep grinding every day, keep bettering my craft so I can meet those expectations,” Cooper said.