{"id":237032,"date":"2025-10-24T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237032\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:45:10","slug":"vikings-wr-justin-jefferson-sets-nfl-record-as-youngest-player-to-reach-8000-receiving-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237032\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings WR Justin Jefferson sets NFL record as youngest player to reach 8,000 receiving yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/justin-jefferson\/\" title=\"Justin Jefferson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Jefferson<\/a>&#8216;s milestone moment shouldn&#8217;t be lost in the Minnesota Vikings&#8217; <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/vikings-at-chargers-2025-reg-8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismal outing<\/a> Thursday night against the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>A 15-yard catch late in the second quarter put Jefferson over the 8,000-yard receiving mark for his career, making him the youngest player in NFL history to breach the benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson (26 years, 129 days) bested Randy Moss&#8217;s previous record by 168 days. He&#8217;s just the third player to go for 8,000-plus yards in his first six seasons (Moss, Torry Holt).<\/p>\n<p>That Jefferson snagged the record on a wide-open in-breaking route against zone coverage was apropos, as it&#8217;s the type of play he&#8217;s feasted on during his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Jefferson&#8216;s milestone moment shouldn&#8217;t be lost in the Minnesota Vikings&#8217; dismal outing Thursday night against the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[10949,49,48,27240,1726,44,514,2208,64354,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-237032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-justin-jefferson","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-no-minute","16":"tag-regular-season","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}