{"id":254569,"date":"2025-08-02T00:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/254569\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:14:12","slug":"theo-jackson-nabs-2-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/254569\/","title":{"rendered":"Theo Jackson Nabs 2 Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Jefferson remains sidelined while dealing with a “very minor hamstring strain<\/a>” but was incredibly interactive with teammates, again. Receiver Robert Lewis and safety Jay Ward also did not participate.<\/p>\n

Next up is another padded practice open to the public Saturday before a closed session Sunday.<\/p>\n

Here are three observations presented by Minnesota Eye Consultants<\/a>, the Proud LASIK Partner of the Minnesota Vikings:<\/p>\n

So nice, had to do it twice<\/p>\n

Step aside, Dwight “Nudie” McGlothern. It’s Jackson’s time to shine.<\/p>\n

Jackson put his teammate in the secondary on notice Friday, corralling not one but a pair of interceptions. That gives Jackson three in a span of two practices, after gathering one Wednesday, and officially places him on streak watch. McGlothern had his own string of afternoons with a pick come to an end. The 2024 undrafted free agent netted three over three consecutive practices, beginning Monday.<\/p>\n

Jackson struck first in a team period by laying out for a middle-of-the-field pass from McCarthy that deflected off Jordan Addison’s mitts. Later on, the safety floated across the middle and expertly timed a throw from Sam Howell, cutting in front of Tim Jones to intercept it. Jackson likely would’ve gone for six.<\/p>\n

O’Connell said Jackson is “stepping into a role that he’s quite honestly been ready for, for a while.”<\/p>\n

“Any time he’s around the football in the deep part of the field, or getting a vision or a key to break on something underneath, he’s normally \u2013 if he’s around it \u2013 he’s gonna make the play,” O’Connell stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Jefferson remains sidelined while dealing with a “very minor hamstring strain” but was incredibly interactive with teammates,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[14288,7,233,259,2529,14289,1025,31439,6,23207,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-254569","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-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-vikings","12":"tag-minnesotavikings","13":"tag-news-3-observations","14":"tag-news-index","15":"tag-news-training-camp","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-theo-jackson","18":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114956289111833503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254569","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=254569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}