Since wide receiver Adam Thielen won’t be surprising anyone this season, the Minnesota Vikings are working on ways to stay ahead of defenses that will now be scheming to stop him.
“This year he’s playing a little bit more in the slot,” quarterback Sam Bradford said Wednesday. “So [we’re] trying to develop that chemistry with some of those routes on the inside, spending a little bit of extra time in OTAs just getting the feel for how he sees things from the slot.”
Undrafted out of Minnesota State in 2014, Thielen jumped from just eight catches his rookie season and 12 in 2015 to 69 receptions for a team-high 967 yards last season.