The Vikings are 1-4 and will play at the 1-4 Chicago Bears Sunday at noon. Hear the game on WJON. The Vikings will play without top receiver Justin Jefferson due to a hamstring injury that will keep him out a minimum of 4 games.
Injuries and injury concerns ahead of Week 1 of the NFL season are never fun.
For Adam Thielen, who has a new team this season, he was aiming to get the new chapter of his career off to a strong start.
Kirk Cousins agreed to a 2-year contract extension with the Minnesota Vikings in 2020 and signed a 1-year contract ahead of the 2023 season, which is a fully guaranteed $35 Million deal. Cousins turns 35 on August 19 and is in a "prove it" contract.
Kirk Cousins' career has been a long and interesting road thus far. Coming up in mid-July, Netflix will put the spotlight on three NFL Quarterbacks, including Cousins in a new documentary.
In some of the most unsurprising news of the week in the NFL, a few first round standouts from the 2020 NFL Draft had their fifth-year contract options exercised in the past few days.