{"id":1017821,"date":"2026-10-03T21:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1017821\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:49:12","slug":"vikings-wr-justin-jefferson-ankle-out-sunday-against-dolphins-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1017821\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings WR Justin Jefferson (ankle) out Sunday against Dolphins | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jefferson is the only Vikings player with multiple scrimmage touchdowns through Week 3, but his 179 receiving yards are the fewest through three games in his career.<\/p>\n<p>With the star wideout sitting Week 4, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jordan-addison\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Jordan Addison<\/a> will move into the primary role after splashing several big plays in last Sunday\u2019s win over Tampa Bay. The Vikes need to get <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jauan-jennings\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Jauan Jennings<\/a> involved after he caught one pass over two games while dealing with injury.<\/p>\n<p>Murray struggled in his return to the lineup in Week 3, and Minnesota has the worst total offense (238.3 total YPG) in the NFL in 2026. Getting back on track sans Jefferson won\u2019t be easy, but the Vikings will face a Dolphins defense that ranks 28th in points per game allowed and 29th in yards per play given up in three tilts.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is Jefferson is healthy enough for Week 5 when the Vikings <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/vikings-at-saints-2026-reg-5?tab=overview\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">travel<\/a> to his home state to play the Saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jefferson is the only Vikings player with multiple scrimmage touchdowns through Week 3, but his 179 receiving yards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1017822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,6],"class_list":["post-1017821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117379187561300458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}