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afternoon against the Buffalo Bills Alexander Mattison Minnesota Vikings Jerseys , the Minnesota Vikings’ offense got to take the field first after the Los Angeles Rams won the coin toss and deferred to the second half. Sam Ficken put his foot to the ball for a touchback, and the Vikings got to start from their own 25-yard line.Dalvin Cook got the first two carries with mixed results. . .a gain of six followed by a loss of three. . .and Kirk Cousins found Adam Thielen to convert the team’s first opportunity on third down. Cousins then found Thielen for a big 16-yard completion into Rams’ territory at the 42. Cousins then found Laquon Treadwell for another first down to the Los Angeles 26, and the Vikings were on the move.After another nice gain by Cook, an incompletion to Thielen brought up a 3rd-and-3 from the Rams’ 19. A short pass to Thielen converted, and the Vikings soon faced a 3rd-and-10 from the Los Angeles 16. Cousins dropped back to pass, fired for the back right corner of the end zone, and found. . .Aldrick Robinson? Yes, Aldrick Robinson for a 16-yard touchdown pass! Dan Bailey converted the extra point, and the Vikings found themselves ahead 7-0.Bailey’s kickoff went for a touchback, giving Jared Goff and company the ball at their own 25. The Rams converted a third down early on with a pass from Goff to Brandin Cooks Minnesota Vikings Jerseys 2019 , and then got another quick first down on a pass to Cooper Kupp. It looked like the Vikings got a stop on the next third down attempt, but Xavier Rhodes was flagged for holding Cooks to move the sticks again.Gurley then burst through for a gain of eight, and the Rams were at the Minnesota 35-yard line. An easy pass to Gerald Everett went for 13 yards and another first down, and the Rams were in business near the red zone. After another Rams’ first down, Goff found Gurley with Anthony Barr in coverage for an 8-yard touchdown pass. Ficken added the extra point, and just like that we were tied at 7-7.Ficken launched his second kickoff of the night for a touchback, giving the Vikings a start at their own 25 once again. The Vikings faced yet another third down to start the drive, and it appeared that Cousins found Thielen for yet another first down, but the Vikings were called for illegal formation to wipe it out. Cousins got it back though, as he found Kyle Rudolph for a huge first down.As we move to the second quarter of play Alexander Mattison Jersey nfl draft , the Vikings have a 1st-and-10 from their own 35, and they are tied with the Rams at 7-7. A week ago, Adam Thielen was breaking modern NFL records.This week, we’re talking single-season receiving records.More Vikings coveragePhotos of the Week: 7/21/19 – 7/27/19Rookie Bradbury is central figure to Vikings’ overhauled offensive lineVikings depth at cornerback being tested, Hughes still not clearedPlayers to watch at Minnesota Vikings 2019 training campTop Tweets: Vikings WR Diggs makes push for All-NFL Style TeamThielen had 11 catches for 123 yards and a touchdown in Week 6, and now leads the league with 712 receiving yards on 58 catches.That’s a 16-game pace of 1,899 receiving yards and 154 receptions, enough to threaten the single-season yardage record and shatter the single-season receptions record.Calvin Johnson set the current single-season yardage record in 2012, racking up 1,964 receiving yards Alexander Mattison Jersey Cheap , while Marvin Harrison set the receptions record in 2002 with 143.And while those numbers seem out there — particularly for a guy coming off his first 1,000-yard season — some of the underlying metrics suggest that Thielen’s torrid pace could be sustainable.Thielen had another 15 targets Sunday, giving him a league-leading 81 on the season. He has no fewer than 10 targets in any game this season, and an overall catch rate of 71.6 percent.That catch rate is actually down from Thielen’s career high — an even 75 percent, back in 2016 — and more than 20 percentage points off the league lead.Most of those catches are coming without much additional yardage, a potential area of improvement.Thielen is currently averaging 12.3 yards per reception, slightly below his career average of 13.6, after averaging 14 yards per reception from 2016-17.He’s averaging just 4.2 yards after the catch per reception, well outside the top 30, and slightly off his 2017 rate of 5.0 YAC/R and his 2016 rate of 4.4 YAC/R.There is Alexander Mattison Jersey Womens , it would seem, a bit of untapped potential left there.One potential wrinkle: His usage so far accounts for 44.27 percent of the Vikings‘ air yards this season, a measure that eliminates YAC.From a basic standout, Thielen is accounting for nearly half of the Vikings’ passing offense.That seems like an area where Thielen could be primed for regression — he currently ranks second in the league behind Julio Jones at 48.02 percent — but such a number isn’t unprecedented in this pass-happy era.Both Jones and A.J. Green finished 2017 above 45 percent, while DeAndre Hopkins, Antonio Brown and Michael Thomas finished north of 40 percent.