Solak’s final mention of Minnesota called attention to a Justin Jefferson-centric stat that again demonstrates how otherworldly the Vikings superstar receiver has played since entering the NFL in 2020.<\/p>\n
Very matter-of-factly, it can serve as a reminder no one in history has been better through five seasons.<\/p>\n
Solak wrote the following:<\/p>\n
Puka Nacua holds the record for most receiving yards in a rookie season with 1,486. Yet Minnesota’s Justin Jefferson holds the record for most receiving yards through two seasons of a player’s career (3,016), three seasons (4,825), four seasons (5,899) and five seasons (7,432). An absurd testament to early-career success and availability. For context, Jefferson is 261 yards above second place in Year 2, 662 above in Year 3, 387 above in Year 4 (despite missing seven games) and 648 above in Year 5. To catch him in the Year 5 numbers, Ja’Marr Chase needs a cool 2,008-yard season. Jefferson is already seventh on the list for receiving yards through six seasons, and he has played only five seasons. He’ll take the top spot with a mere 943 yards, which would take just 10 games on his career average of 96.5 receiving yards per game (the best number in NFL history, so take your “17-game season” complaints and shove ’em).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solak’s final mention of Minnesota called attention to a Justin Jefferson-centric stat that again demonstrates how otherworldly the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,1519,2780,8387,233,259,2529,1025,8388,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-84655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-j-j-mccarthy","10":"tag-justin-jefferson","11":"tag-lunch-break","12":"tag-minnesota","13":"tag-minnesota-vikings","14":"tag-minnesotavikings","15":"tag-news-index","16":"tag-news-lunch-break","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114584117918257940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84655","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=84655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}