The Minnesota Vikings are 0-3, but Justin Jefferson says there are far too many games remaining to begin drawing conclusions about the fate of the team's season.

The wide receiver said he is tired of hearing about how their start could impact plans for 2024 and whether some players will or should be traded to stockpile draft picks.

"At the end of the day it's not going to be perfect every time," Jefferson said. "There's things that you've got to go through throughout the season to really tell if you're going to be a great team or not. We're handling adversity early in the season with the turnovers and being 0-3, but there is a whole bunch of more games to go.

"I'm tired of people saying that we're looking into next season or all of the trades and stuff like that. We're focused still on this season. We have a lot more games to go and we have a lot more things to accomplish this season. We're still focused in, and we still have the same goal as we had before the season. We just need to fix a few things and I feel like we'll be back on track."

Jefferson's 458 receiving yards is an NFL record for the first three weeks of a season.

The Minnesota Vikings had trouble on offense as they attempted to score set up at the Los Angeles Chargers' 6-yard line with 35 seconds left on Sunday.

The Vikings managed just a single unsuccessful play on its final drive, attributing a lengthy pre-snap delay to the deafening crowd noise at home.

Kirk Cousins said he "just couldn't hear" Kevin O'Connell's play call immediately after a fourth-down conversion that put the Vikings in scoring range.

The team was out of timeouts by that point, but rather than spike the ball to preserve time, Cousins rushed the offense up to the line and prepared to run a first-and-goal call. By the time he actually snapped it, 23 seconds had run off the clock, and he'd opted to run his own play.

Cousins' impromptu call ended up being the same call O'Connell had been trying to signal, but the execution was so hurried after the prolonged setup that Cousins' final pass toward T.J. Hockenson was tipped and intercepted.

The Vikings' 0-3 start is their worst in 10 years. 

The Minnesota Vikings have acquired Cam Akers in a trade with the Los Angeles Rams.

In exchange for the running back, the teams will swap 2026 draft picks, with the Vikings also getting a conditional seventh-round pick and the Rams getting a conditional sixth-rounder.

The Vikings have an NFL-low 69 rushing yards this season.

Justin Jefferson made history in the first half of the Minnesota Vikings' loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday night.

Jefferson surpassed 5,000 receiving yards for his career, becoming the fastest player to reach the plateau in NFL history.

In 52 career games, Jefferson has 344 receptions for 5,134 yards and 25 touchdowns.

Justin Jefferson doesn't seem overly concerned with the state of his contract negotiations with the Minnesota Vikings.

Jefferson, 24, will undoubtedly receive one of the largest contracts ever given to a non-quarterback.

"Of course I would want a contract to be done," Jefferson said. "But at the end of the day, it is all up to (the Vikings) and what the ownership wants to do with that."

Everything that Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has said publicly is unquestionably supportive of Jefferson and that the team intends to get a deal done with the wide receiver eventually. 

When asked if negotiations lasting into the season bothered him, Jefferson said: "It's up to them."

The Minnesota Vikings have reached an agreement on a two-year contract extension with safety Josh Metellus, according to a source.

The safety's new deal is worth up to $13 million and includes $6 million guaranteed.

Metellus has long been one of the Vikings' top special teams players and was named its captain for the 2023 season.

Two-time Pro Bowl tight end Kyle Rudolph has retired after a 12-year NFL career spent mostly with the Minnesota Vikings.

He told NFL reporter Jordan Schultz that he will retire as a member of the Vikings and will be honored by the organization around their Week 3 game against the Los Angeles Chargers.

"Can't wait to come back home! @Vikings #Skol," he posted on X.