• Career Stats
    RushingReceiving
    YearGPRrsh/ydsaveTDsrec/ydsaveTDsFSV
    20199 54 4/6 1.5 1 30/418 13.9 6 114
    201816 8 5/30 6.0 0 113/1373 12.2 9 307
    201716 10 1/11 11.0 0 91/1276 14.0 4 244
    201616 27 2/15 7.5 0 69/967 14.0 5 197
    201516 124 4/89 22.3 0 12/144 12.0 0 35
    201416 123 0/0 0.0 0 8/137 17.1 1 28
  • (Month:Week)
2019 Stats | MINWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 TOT
TM Snap % 89% 98% 87% 95% 85% 83% 12% - 10% - - - - - 51% 93% - 68%
rshYds 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - - 3 2 - 6
rushes 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 - - - - - - - 1 1 - 4
rshTDs 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - - 0 0 - 1
recYds 43 75 55 6 130 57 25 - - - - - - - 27 0 - 418
Tar/Rec 3/3 8/5 5/3 6/2 8/7 8/6 2/1 - - - - - - - 3/3 4/0 - 47/30
TM Tar% 38% 30% 26% 19% 40% 29% 6% - 0% - - - - - 13% 14% - 19%
recTDs 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 - - - - - - - 0 0 - 6
FScore 10 7 17 0 25 11 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 84
FS/PPR 13 12 20 2 32 17 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 114
Opp atl @ gb oak @ chi @ nyg phi @ det was @ kc @ dal den bye @ sea det @ lac gb chi  
 
2018 Stats | MINWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 TOT
TM Snap % 96% 96% 100% 99% 97% 97% 96% 95% 92% - 100% 97% 100% 97% 91% 93% 93% 96%
rshYds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 5 - 0 0 0 8 0 3 -1 30
rushes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 - 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 5
rshTDs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
recYds 102 131 105 135 116 123 110 103 22 - 66 125 28 70 19 80 38 1373
Tar/Rec 12/6 13/12 19/14 12/8 10/7 13/11 10/9 7/7 7/4 - 12/7 9/8 10/5 7/5 2/2 6/5 4/3 153/113
TM Tar% 34% 27% 35% 24% 28% 48% 26% 18% 32% - 27% 25% 23% 23% 11% 23% 15% 27%
recTDs 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 9
FScore 10 19 10 19 17 18 17 17 8 0 6 18 8 7 1 8 3 194
FS/PPR 16 31 24 27 24 29 26 24 12 0 13 26 13 12 3 13 6 307
Opp sf @ gb buf @ lar @ phi ari @ nyj no det bye @ chi gb @ ne @ sea mia @ det chi  
 
2017 Stats | MINWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 TOT
TM Snap % 100% 95% 85% 98% 97% 94% 98% 92% - 90% 94% 90% 91% 93% 84% 92% - 93%
rshYds 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
rushes 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
rshTDs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
recYds 157 44 98 59 34 97 41 98 - 166 123 89 51 105 30 24 61 1277
Tar/Rec 10/9 6/5 8/5 8/5 8/5 13/9 12/5 10/5 - 12/8 9/6 11/8 5/4 12/6 5/3 6/2 7/6 142/91
TM Tar% 31% 17% 24% 27% 25% 36% 39% 23% - 41% 24% 37% 17% 30% 20% 24% - 28%
recTDs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
FScore 15 4 9 5 4 9 4 15 0 22 18 8 5 16 3 2 6 152
FS/PPR 24 9 14 10 9 18 9 20 0 30 24 16 9 22 6 4 12 243
Opp no @ pit tb det @ chi gb bal @ cle bye @ was lar @ det @ atl @ car cin @ gb chi  
 

Adam Thielen 2020 Outlook
As ESPN's Matthew Berry noted, Thielen dealt with injuries last season, but still was one of the best wide receivers in football and now, with Stefon Diggs in Buffalo, he should get an incredible target share from Kirk Cousins. The Vikings did draft Justin Jefferson and added Tajae Sharpe via free agency, but Berry is adamant that the passing offense for Minnesota will run through Thielen. ESPN's Mike Clay backs that contention, noting that Thielen has played at least 80 percent of the Vikings snaps in 18 games in 2017, 16 games in 2018 and nine games in 2019; his target share was right at 26 percent during each of those stretches. Now with Diggs gone, Clay believes Thielen is positioned for a huge role and is a great "post-hype" target in 2020. Worth noting, for his career, when Thielen gets at least nine targets, he averages 22.8 fantasy points per game (last season, Michael Thomas was the only WR to average more than 20 points per game). Also, as FantasyPros pointed out, there were five wide receivers who scored a touchdown more often than once every 10.0 targets in 2019: Mecole Hardman (6.8), Thielen (8.0), Sharpe (8.8), Kendrick Bourne (8.8) and Willie Snead (9.0). Thielen is yet another later pick with WR1 upside.

Adam Thielen 2019 Outlook
At the start of last year's training camp, teammate Stefon Diggs inked a five-year deal worth $72 million with a $15 million signing bonus. This offseason the Vikings and Thielen agreed to a four-year extension worth a maximum of $73 million. To say that Thielen earned the raise is an understatement. Since signing his previous deal, Thielen had racked up 204 receptions for 2,649 yards and 13 touchdowns. His 295 targets over those two seasons is tied for sixth-most in the league during that span. When juxtaposed with Diggs' statistics over that same period, Thielen’s totals come out far ahead. Diggs has 166 receptions for 1,870 yards and 17 touchdowns since 2017, and while those numbers may be impressive, it's clear Thielen remains the Vikings’ No. 1 target -- in part because he's often used as a big slot receiver, a role that creates mismatches against smaller slot defenders. In 2018, Thielen produced 100-yard receiving efforts in eight straight games to start the season, which established an NFL record. And for his career, the 28-year-old Thielen has appeared in 80 games with 42 starts coming in the past three seasons. He has 293 career catches (including a career-high 113 in 2018) for 3,897 yards and 19 touchdowns. Even if the targets diminish a bit, expect Thielen to continue playing the lead role here.

Adam Thielen 2018 Outlook
As CBSSports.com noted, Thielen finished the 2017 regular season on a low note and dealt with a pair of minor back fractures during the playoffs, but he seems to have made good on his stated expectation that he wouldn't have any restrictions during the upcoming offseason. He can now turn his focus toward building chemistry with new QB Kirk Cousins and new OC John DeFilippo, hoping to replicate -- or even exceed -- his 2017 campaign. The 27-year-old wideout finished fifth in the NFL in receiving yards (1,276) and eighth in receptions (91), but his touchdowns (four), yards per target (8.9) and catch rate (63.6 percent) all dropped off a bit from his breakout 2016 campaign. Thielen remains one of the league's most valuable inside and outside receivers although he worked mostly in the slot this past season. As Bleacher Report's Doug Farrar notes, Thielen has the speed to win on vertical boundary routes, he understands how to use his size and physicality to gain an advantage on contested catches and his increased understanding of the value of leverage in route running became clear in 2017. Assuming the extra work he puts in with Cousins (along with fellow wideout Stefon Diggs) pays off, expecting another strong season seems reasonable.