Despite coming into the season with low expectations from most pundits, the Minnesota Vikings started the 2024 NFL season on fire. They came out and shocked most people, starting the season off with five straight wins, including wins over some impressive teams like the Houston Texans and San Francisco 49ers.
Then the wheels momentarily fell off, and the Vikings lost two straight games. Now, however, the Vikings have managed to right the ship and reeled off seven straight wins. A large portion of that is due to the emergence of wide receive Jordan Addison as a legitimate complement to perennial All-Pro Justin Jefferson.
Addison started the year off underwhelming to say the least. Before the season even started, Addison had run-ins with the law that created questions around him early in the season. Even after the season started, Addison wasn’t playing like it had. Over the first eight games of the season, Addison only had 19 receptions and just two touchdowns, missing two games in the process.
However, as the Vikings hit their stride again in the second half of the season, so did Addison. It is so much so that ESPN analyst Kevin Seifert has named Addison the team’s biggest improvement over the season. Since Week 9, Addison has exploded for 37 receptions, 540 yards, and six touchdowns.
That explosion in production has helped the Vikings score 30 or more points in three of their last four games and has the team in a great position to make a late-season run to capture the NFC North and the #1 seed in the NFC playoffs.
