INGLEWOOD, CALIF. – Better late than never.
At 3-5 and their season on the brink, the Vikings made a concerted, weeklong effort to get the ball to a guy they should have been getting the ball to while losing two straight games.
The result?
Justin Jefferson, one of the NFL's best receivers, played like one of the league's best receivers, digging his team out of big holes time after time while catching 9 of 11 targets for 143 yards in a 27-20 win over the Chargers at So-Fi Stadium.
It started with offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak telling the media that the Vikings were going to get Jefferson the ball after targeting him only nine times total in the back-to-back losses to Dallas and Baltimore.