With eight catches for 92 yards, two touchdowns, and a two-point conversion in a nutty Week 1 win over the Packers, Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson has 587 career receptions.<\/p>\n
His next one will be a significant one.<\/p>\n
Via NBC Sports research, Jefferson is tied with Randy Moss on the franchise\u2019s all-time catch list. Jefferson\u2019s 588th will put him all alone in second place.<\/p>\n
He still has a long way to go to set the Vikings\u2019 record. Cris Carter holds it, with 1,004 receptions. Jefferson needs another 418 to break Carter\u2019s mark.<\/p>\n
Jefferson is young enough and good enough to get there. The question is whether, unlike Moss, Jefferson remains in Minnesota long enough to do it.<\/p>\n
The more important objective for Jefferson and the Vikings on Sunday will be to extend a streak of six straight wins in Chicago. The Vikings are also 8-2 against the Bears since 2021.<\/p>\n
And while these Bears seem to be very different than Bears teams of the recent past (as evidenced by the 59 points scored in Week 1 at Carolina), it\u2019s going to be a rainy day in the Windy City, which could take some steam out of both offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With eight catches for 92 yards, two touchdowns, and a two-point conversion in a nutty Week 1 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-899083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}