{"id":17134,"date":"2023-03-04T06:16:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/vikings-hc-reveals-crazy-thoughts-about-star-wr\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T06:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:16:07","slug":"vikings-hc-reveals-crazy-thoughts-about-star-wr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/vikings-hc-reveals-crazy-thoughts-about-star-wr\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings HC reveals &#8216;crazy&#8217; thoughts about star WR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Three stellar seasons by Justin Jefferson haven&#8217;t convinced Vikings head coach Kevin O&#8217;Connell that the star receiver has reached his full potential.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As crazy as this sounds, leading the league in yards and receptions, I think he and I have just scratched the surface of where we want to go as an offense, particularly with him as our premier receiver,&#8221; O&#8217;Connell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/kevin-o-connell-believes-justin-jefferson-has-just-scratched-the-surface-with-vi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said this week<\/a> at the NFL Scouting Combine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0O&#8217;Connell, a former NFL QB, calls plays for Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson, the AP Offensive Player of the Year, had 10 100-yard games in O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s first season as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Jefferson led the league in receiving yards (1,809) and receptions (128) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/awards\/awards_2022.htm#voting_apmvp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finished fifth<\/a> in NFL MVP voting. He has the most receiving yards in NFL history for a player through his first three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson&#8217;s 1,809 receiving yards in 2022 set a Vikings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/leaders\/rec_yds_single_season.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">season record<\/a>, besting Randy Moss&#8217;s 2003 performance (1,632) set in the 16-game era.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson&#8217;s 2022 receiving yardage total puts him sixth on the all-time list for a season, behind Antonio Brown (1,834), Jerry Rice (1,848), Julio Jones (1,871), Cooper Kupp (1,947) and record-holder Calvin Johnson (1,964)<\/p>\n<p>With most of the Vikings starters on offense and the offensive coaching staff returning, Jefferson could have similar success in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To best Johnson&#8217;s record, Jefferson would need to average roughly 116 yards receiving a game over a 17-game regular season.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/vikings_hc_reveals_crazy_thoughts_about_star_wr\/s1_13132_38535246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three stellar seasons by Justin Jefferson haven&#8217;t convinced Vikings head coach Kevin O&#8217;Connell that the star receiver has reached his full potential. &#8220;As crazy as this sounds, leading the league in yards and receptions, I think he and I have just scratched the surface of where we want to go as an offense, particularly with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}