The schedule release has come and gone, prompting an appearance on Good Morning Football for Justin Jefferson.<\/p>\n
The 2026 NFL schedule<\/a> is out, and the Minnesota Vikings have one of the more intriguing ones in the league.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n After starting the season<\/a> with the Green Bay Packers, the Vikings will travel to Chicago<\/a> to take on the Bears. Their toughest stretch of the season<\/a> will be in Weeks 8-11 when they face four playoff teams, with three of them away from home.<\/p>\n If they are going to make the playoffs, they need to thrive in that stretch, and wide receiver Justin Jefferson will need to thrive.<\/p>\n Justin Jefferson doesn\u2019t take the bait when talking matchups<\/p>\n Once the schedule is released, the focus turns toward talking about the season. Jefferson made an appearance on Good Morning Football, where the panel tried to get him to talk about any matchups he has circled. Being a savvy individual, Jefferson didn\u2019t bite.<\/p>\n \u201cThey definitely got a couple corners that that I\u2019m going to face this year that I haven\u2019t faced in previous years. So, I\u2019m definitely looking forward to that. No individual names at this very moment. Yeah, match-ups are going to be talked about, the just the exciting moments and the exciting match-ups are always talked about. So I\u2019m looking forward to it, as always.\u201d<\/p>\n Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n A tremendously media-savvy answer from Jefferson, who knows exactly how to handle these situations. Kyle Brandt summarized exactly what Jefferson was trying to say with a perfect one answer.<\/p>\n Listen, at this point, J.J. doesn\u2019t circle people. People circle J.J.<\/p>\n Good Morning Football\u2019s Kyle Brandt<\/p>\n It\u2019s a really smart way for Brandt to frame it, and it\u2019s even better because he\u2019s right. When you are the best wide receiver in the NFL, others are going to make you a focus. That\u2019ll be a problem for his opponents, as Jefferson\u2019s going to be extra motivated to be great after a down 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The schedule release has come and gone, prompting an appearance on Good Morning Football for Justin Jefferson. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[692,7,345,2780,18175,233,259,2529,120154,6,3081,234,1473],"class_list":["post-892364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-vikings","tag-chicago","tag-football","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-justin-jefferson","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-morning-football","tag-nfl","tag-usa","tag-vikings","tag-wide-receiver"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116581588256291213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892364","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=892364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}