The Minnesota Vikings, as we’ve all seen, as struggling through this 2025 season, and while star wide receiver Justin Jefferson has still been among the league leaders in receptions (currently 13th with 60 through 11 games) and receiving yardage (currently 8th, 795 yards), he hasn’t had quite the numbers that we’ve been accustomed to him putting up over his incredible career to this point. And, even though he’s still been publicly supportive of quarterback J.J. McCarthy despite the struggles he’s had in the early stages of his career, at least one place that employs a number of the Really Smart Football People™ is attempting to fabricate something out of nothing.
Stephen A. Smith of ESPN is, once again, attempting to imply that Jefferson is somehow unhappy with the Vikings, undoubtedly hoping that Jefferson can somehow get traded to one of the seven or eight NFL teams that his employer actually cares about.
Jefferson has never, in any public setting, expressed any sort of anger or frustration with the Vikings or the team’s current situation. Quite the opposite, as he’s been quite vocal about standing behind McCarthy and insisting that the young quarterback is going to find his way through the struggles he’s currently experiencing. But that’s never stopped the Really Smart Football People™ before. If you’ll recall, while Jefferson and the Vikings were negotiating a new contract, there were any number of stories about how Jefferson and his “camp”. . .whoever that entails. . .were unhappy with the way things were going and that everyone was getting increasingly frustrated and that a trade out of Minnesota was an increasingly likely scenario.
And then Jefferson signed a deal that made him the highest-paid non-quarterback in the sport. Within minutes of the ink drying on the contract, it came out that. . .well, there was never really any acrimony between Jefferson and the Vikings, and the Vikings never really seriously entertained the idea of trading away their star player.
I mean, we told you that there was never any friction between Jefferson and the Vikings, but we’re just blogger trash, so who was going listen to us?
Outlets like ESPN have been wishing for Justin Jefferson to find his way to a team other than the Vikings since the Eagles graciously passed on him in the 2020 NFL Draft. But they’re just going to have to keep waiting. . .unless, of course, we suddenly see a series of cryptic messages coming from Jefferson’s Twitter/X account. If that happens, I suppose all bets are off.
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