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A day after star receiver Justin Jefferson had to leave Sunday's 27-20 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs because of a hamstring injury, the Minnesota Vikings were still evaluating the status of their leading receiver. Jefferson left in the fourth quarter Sunday and wanted to return to the game, Minnesota coach Kevin O'Connell said Monday, but the team chose to sit Jefferson to protect him. “It probably wasn’t going to be possible, but he was trying to figure out a way,” O'Connell said Monday.

The Chiefs have yet to allow more than 118 yards rushing in a game this season. KEY MATCHUP: The Vikings offensive line against the Chiefs offensive line. OK, so they don't actually match up against each other, but whichever group performs better will give their team a huge advantage.

After Kirk Cousins delivered a must-convert fourth down completion for Minnesota to T.J. Hockenson, the Vikings had the ball at the 6-yard line with 35 seconds remaining when the tight end climbed to his feet. Instead of a quick spike to stop the clock without any timeouts, coach Kevin O'Connell tried to relay a quick play to Cousins to keep the Los Angeles Chargers from setting their defense the way they wanted. Cousins couldn't hear him clearly, because of a choppy connection on the headset and the crowd cheering in anticipation of a dramatic go-ahead touchdown, so the quarterbac...

Kirk Cousins took the third down shotgun snap in the first quarter from the Minnesota 30-yard line and started his survey of the field. Winfield knocked the ball loose upon impact and fell on it at the 18, setting the Buccaneers up for a field goal that proved to be the winning margin in the season opener last week. As well as Cousins has typically performed on plays with an extra pass rusher, all it takes is one colossal whiff on a blitz such as Winfield's and the whole game can go awry.

Hockenson was the eighth overall pick by Detroit in the 2019 draft out of Iowa. The two-time Pro Bowl pick was acquired in a deadline-day trade last year by the Vikings and had 60 catches for 519 yards in 10 games. Hockenson was only a limited participant for most of training camp, first citing an ear infection that caused equilibrium trouble and later attributing his absence to lower back stiffness.