{"id":122554,"date":"2025-06-11T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122554\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:18:13","slug":"jalen-nailor-finds-spots-justin-jefferson-makes-signature-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122554\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Nailor Finds Spots; Justin Jefferson Makes Signature Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are three observations presented by <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mneye.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minnesota Eye Consultants<\/a>, the Proud LASIK Partner of the Minnesota Vikings:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Speedy&#8221; Nailor finding spots<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Nailor, who switched from No. 83 to No. 1 and bulked up in the offseason, was on the receiving end of a few passes from J.J. McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Nailor found an opening in the back middle of the end zone, and McCarthy fired a strike to conclude their first series of plays during 7-on-7.<\/p>\n<p>Nailor also created a window in the left of the end zone, enabling another TD pass and earning a, &#8220;Good job, Speedy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vikings Offensive Coordinator Wes Phillips said Nailor &#8220;hasn&#8217;t lost his ability to transition in and out of routes&#8221; despite adding muscle mass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I expect big things from Speedy, and I thought he had a really good year last year,&#8221; Phillips said. &#8220;There&#8217;s certain plays people can&#8217;t get out of their heads. But if you look at the body of work, the guy played really good football for us last year, and I expect him to do similar things this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are three observations presented by Minnesota Eye Consultants, the Proud LASIK Partner of the Minnesota Vikings: 1.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[14288,7,3973,233,259,2529,14289,1025,14537,1219,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-122554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-3-observations-story","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jalen-nailor","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-vikings","13":"tag-minnesotavikings","14":"tag-news-3-observations","15":"tag-news-index","16":"tag-news-minicamp","17":"tag-news-team","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114667291264881666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122554","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=122554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}