MINNEAPOLIS — Heading into his third year with the Vikings, Justin Jefferson does not yet hold the team's single-season receiving yardage record. He fell 16 yards short when the team kneeled out the clock in its final game against the Bears.
He is not yet viewed as the best receiver in the league in most circles (sometimes by his own admission), and he will make $1.8 million this season, playing on a rookie deal that has him ranked 61st in the league at the position.
Jefferson, just 41 days removed from his 23rd birthday, talked about all of it before the Vikings' first training camp practice Wednesday with equanimity, like he's not in a rush for any of it to change. That might be because he knows if he continues to do what he's been doing, it all will change soon enough.
