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American football player (born 1999)

American football player

Justin Jefferson
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Jefferson with the Minnesota Vikings in 2022

No. 18 – Minnesota Vikings
Position: Wide receiver
Personal information
Built-in: (1999-06-16) June 16, 1999 (age 23)
St. Rose, Louisiana, U.S.
Tiptop: six ft 1 in (1.85 one thousand)
Weight: 195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High school: Destrehan (Destrehan, Louisiana)
College: LSU (2017–2019)
NFL Typhoon: 2020 / Round: 1 / Pick: 22
Career history
  • Minnesota Vikings (2020–present)
Roster status: Agile
Career highlights and awards
  • NFL Offensive Player of the Year (2022)
  • Get-go-squad All-Pro (2022)
  • ii× Second-team All-Pro (2020, 2021)
  • 3× Pro Bowl (2020–2022)
  • NFL receptions leader (2022)
  • NFL receiving yards leader (2022)
  • PFWA All-Rookie Squad (2020)
  • CFP national champion (2019)
  • Second-team All-SEC (2019)
NFL tape
  • Almost receiving yards per game (career): 96.5
Career NFL statistics as of 2022
Receptions: 324
Receiving yards: 4,825
Receiving touchdowns: 25
Player stats at NFL.com ·PFR

Justin Joshua Jefferson (born June sixteen, 1999)[1] is an American football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at LSU and was drafted past the Vikings in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

Jefferson immediately made an impact upon entering the league, setting a rookie record for receiving yards with 1,400 (a record that was cleaved a yr later by his former LSU teammate Ja'Marr Chase) and being named a Pro Bowler and an All-Pro in each of his first iii seasons. In 2022, Jefferson became the youngest role player to lead the league in receptions (128), and receiving yards (1,809) at 23 years old, along with winning the Offensive Player of the Year Accolade and amassing the almost receiving yards through a actor's kickoff three seasons.

Early years [edit]

Jefferson attended Destrehan Loftier School in Destrehan, Louisiana.[2] A low iii-star prospect, ranked past 247Sports as the nation's 308th best wide receiver coming out of high school, he committed to Louisiana Land University (LSU) to play higher football.[3] [4]

Higher career [edit]

Jefferson with LSU in 2019

Jefferson played at LSU for three years nether head coach Ed Orgeron.[5]

2017–2018 seasons [edit]

Afterward appearing in 2 games and non recording a grab his first yr at LSU in 2017, Jefferson was their leading receiver in 2018 with 54 catches for 875 yards and vi touchdowns.[vi] [vii] [8] He scored his outset collegiate touchdown on a 65-yard reception from Joe Burrow against Ole Miss on September 29, 2018.[9] He had two games going over the 100-yard mark with 108 in a victory over Georgia and 117 in a victory over Arkansas.[x] [11]

2019 season [edit]

In the Tigers' 2d game of the 2019 season, Jefferson had ix receptions for 163 yards and three touchdowns in a 45–38 victory on the route against Texas.[12] On Oct 12, against Florida, he had x receptions for 123 yards and a touchdown in the 42–28 victory.[xiii] In the SEC Championship, against Georgia, he had seven receptions for 115 yards and a touchdown in the 37–ten victory.[xiv] Jefferson and the Tigers qualified for the College Football Playoffs with an undefeated record in the 2019 season.[xv] He had a historic performance in the Peach Bowl, catching 14 passes for 227 yards and four touchdowns against the Oklahoma Sooners in the College Football Playoff Semifinals. All four touchdowns came in the first half, and set a College Football Playoff game record and tied the record for any bowl game.[16] In the National Championship against Clemson, he had nine receptions for 106 yards in the 42–25 victory.[17] In his junior flavor, Jefferson led the land with 111 receptions. His xviii receiving touchdowns ranked second in the country—behind but teammate Ja'Marr Chase—and his 1,540 receiving yards were third most. He had eight games going over the 100-yard mark.[xviii] [nineteen] On January 15, 2020, Jefferson announced that he would forgo his senior flavor and enter the NFL Draft.[xx]

Statistics [edit]

Justin Jefferson
Flavor Receiving Rushing
Rec Yds Avg Lng TD Att Yds Avg Lng TD
2017 0 0 0.0 0 0 i 4 4.0 4 0
2018 54 875 16.2 65 6 5 26 5.2 19 0
2019 111 one,540 13.9 71 xviii 0 0 0.0 0 0
Career 165 two,415 fourteen.6 71 24 6 30 6.0 xix 0

Professional career [edit]

Pre-typhoon measurables
Tiptop Weight Arm length Hand span 40-yard dash 10-thousand split 20-yard split Vertical bound Wide spring Wonderlic
6 ft 1+ ane4  in
(1.86 m)
202 lb
(92 kg)
33 in
(0.84 thou)
9+ 18  in
(0.23 yard)
4.43 southward 1.57 due south 2.61 s 37.5 in
(0.95 yard)
10 ft vi in
(iii.xx yard)
19
All values from NFL Combine[21] [22] [23]

Jefferson was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round with the 22nd overall selection in the 2020 NFL Draft.[24] The Vikings previously obtained the 22nd selection as office of a blockbuster trade that sent broad receiver Stefon Diggs to the Buffalo Bills.[25] Jefferson signed a four-year, $13.12 meg contract with the squad, with a $7.1 1000000 signing bonus.[26] Jefferson was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the squad on July 27, 2020,[27] earlier beingness cleared and activated a week later.[28]

2020 [edit]

Jefferson made his debut in Week i against the Dark-green Bay Packers, recording two receptions for 26 yards.[29] He made his offset start of the flavor in a Week 3 game against the Tennessee Titans, where he had his first big breakthrough by finishing with 175 receiving yards and a touchdown on seven receptions, but the Vikings lost 30–31.[30] He followed up that performance the next week with iv receptions for 103 yards in a 31–23 win over the Houston Texans. In doing so, he became only the fifth rookie wide receiver in Vikings history to have back-to-back games with at least 100 yards receiving.[31] During Week half dozen against the Atlanta Falcons, Jefferson finished with ix receptions for 166 receiving yards and two touchdowns .[32]

In Week 13 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Jefferson recorded nine catches for 121 yards and a touchdown during a 27–24 overtime win, in this game he bankrupt the 1,000 receiving 1000 mark.[33] In Week 15 against the Chicago Bears, Jefferson broke Randy Moss's Vikings rookie receiving record by catching viii passes, putting him at 74 receptions, surpassing the 69 catches Moss had in 1998.[34]

By the flavor's end, Jefferson had set the NFL record for most receiving yards (1,400) by a rookie in NFL history later surpassing Anquan Boldin'due south 1,377 yards in 2003 (although his tape would exist broken by his former LSU teammate Ja'Marr Hunt the following season).[35] He was one of just two rookies named to the 2021 Pro Basin, alongside defensive end Chase Immature of the Washington Football game Squad.[36] He was named Rookie of the Year by the Sporting News.[37] He was named to the NFL All-Rookie Team.[38] He was ranked 53rd by his fellow players on the NFL Meridian 100 Players of 2021.[39]

2021 [edit]

Jefferson'due south season started strong, putting up over 100 receiving yards against Seattle, Detroit, and the Chargers over the commencement eight games of the flavour. In Week 11, Jefferson had 8 catches for 169 yards and two touchdowns in a 34–31 win over the Green Bay Packers, earning NFC Offensive Player of the Calendar week.[40] In Week 13, Jefferson caught 11 passes for 182 yards and a touchdown in a 29–27 loss to the Detroit Lions. Jefferson's 464 yards and three touchdowns through four games in the calendar month of Nov earned him NFC Offensive Actor of the Calendar month, the first of his career.[41] During Week 16, Jefferson passed Odell Beckham Jr. for most receiving yards by a thespian in his kickoff two NFL seasons.[42]

Jefferson finished the season with 1,616 receiving yards, good for second-most in the NFL in 2021, and simply 16 yards brusque of Randy Moss's single-flavour franchise record.[43] [44] [45] [46] Jefferson was named to the 2022 Pro Bowl, joining Randy Moss and Sammy White as the only three Vikings wide receivers to make Pro Bowls in each of their beginning 2 professional seasons.[47] [48] For the second consecutive twelvemonth, Jefferson was named a second-team member of the AP All-Pro team, missing a spot on the get-go-squad by a single vote.[49] He was ranked 17th past his swain players on the NFL Superlative 100 Players of 2022.[50]

2022: Offensive Histrion of the Year [edit]

Jefferson during pre-game warm-ups in 2022

Against the Green Bay Packers in Week 1, Jefferson defenseless 9 passes for 184 yards and two touchdowns in the 23–7 win.[51] During Week four against the New Orleans Saints at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Jefferson finished with 147 receiving yards and a rushing touchdown equally the Vikings won 28–25.[52] The following calendar week against Chicago Bears, Jefferson caught a career-high 12 catches resulting in 154 yards receiving in the 29–22 win.[53] Jefferson'due south tertiary grab of the game marked 227 career receptions, surpassing Randy Moss for the franchise record of the nearly receptions in the get-go three years of a career.[54]

Against the Buffalo Bills in Week x, Jefferson caught 10 passes for a career-high 193 yards and a touchdown as the Vikings went on to win 33–30 in overtime.[55] 1 of Jefferson'due south catches came with 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter where on 4th downward and 18, Jefferson made a one-handed catch for 32 yards, wrestling the ball away from Bills cornerback Cam Lewis on the fashion to the ground. The take hold of was widely heralded as 1 of the greatest of all time,[56] and his arm sleeves and gloves from the game were put on brandish in the Pro Football game Hall of Fame.[57] In Week 12, against the New England Patriots, he had nine receptions for 139 receiving yards and i receiving touchdown in the 33–26 victory.[58] In the game against the Patriots, Jefferson passed Moss for the nearly receiving yards in a thespian'south starting time three seasons.[59] In Week fourteen confronting the Detroit Lions, Jefferson recorded xi receptions for 223 yards, setting the Vikings single-game record for receiving yards, in the 34–23 road loss. Additionally, in calendar week 15 against the Indianapolis Colts, Jefferson recorded 12 receptions for 123 yards and a touchdown, setting his flavor total to ane,623 yards, a new career high.[60] Against the Green Bay Packers in Week 17, he was held to i catch on five targets for 15 yards, the lowest stats in a game of his career. During the same game, Jefferson appeared to inadvertently striking a referee with his helmet out of clear frustration, and received no punishment for the incident.[61] [62]

Jefferson finished the 2022 regular season with a league-leading 128 receptions for ane,809 yards and 9 total touchdowns (8 receiving i rushing). He won the Offensive Role player of the Year accolade, as well equally being a final candidate for the league MVP award.

NFL career statistics [edit]

Legend
AP NFL Offensive Player of the Twelvemonth
Led the league
Bold Career high

Regular flavor [edit]

Twelvemonth Team Games Receiving Rushing Fumbles
GP GS Rec Yds Avg Lng TD Att Yds Avg Lng TD Fum Lost
2020 MIN 16 14 88 ane,400 15.9 71 7 1 2 2.0 two 0 1 0
2021 MIN 17 17 108 1,616 15.0 56 10 6 14 two.3 eleven 0 1 1
2022 MIN 17 17 128 1,809 14.1 64 eight 4 24 6.0 10 1 0 0
Career 50 48 324 4,825 xiv.9 71 25 11 xl 3.6 11 i ii ane

Personal life [edit]

His brothers, Jordan and Rickey, also played college football at LSU. Their male parent, John, played Partitioning Ii higher basketball.[63] On April 27, 2021, Jefferson was the starting time NFL player to be added to Fortnite with the dance, the Griddy.[64]

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External links [edit]

  • Career statistics and actor information from NFL.com · ESPN · Pro Football Reference
  • Minnesota Vikings bio
  • LSU Tigers bio

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Jefferson

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