Adam Thielen

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Adam Thielen
Adam Thielen 2017.jpg
Thielen 2017
Minnesota Vikings - No. 19
Wide receiver
Date of birth: August 22, 1990
Place of birth: Detroit Lakes , Minnesota
Height: 1.88 m Weight: 91 kg
NFL debut
2014 for the Minnesota Vikings
Career
College : MSU
Not drafted in 2013
 Teams:
Current status: Active
Career highlights and awards
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Captured passports     323
Captive yards     4,315
Touchdowns     26th
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

Adam John Thielen (* 22. August 1990 in Detroit Lakes , Minnesota ) is an American American football player at the position of wide receiver . He played college football for Minnesota State University, Mankato, and has been with the Minnesota Vikings in the National Football League (NFL) since 2013 .

Early years

Thielen grew up in northern Minnesota and went to high school in Detroit Lakes, where he stood out in addition to football in the sports of basketball , baseball and golf . With the golf team he was able to win the state championships and is now considered the best golfer of the Vikings.

college

Thielen attended Minnesota State University, Mankato , from 2008 to 2012 and played for the Minnesota State Mavericks in the second-rate NCAA Division II .

In total, he caught 198 balls for 2,802 yards in these three years and managed 20 touchdowns .

NFL

In the NFL Draft 2013 Thielen has not been selected. He was then invited to rookie camps by the Carolina Panthers and Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings then signed him as a free agent . As part of the final squad reduction to 53 players, he was removed from the roster and added to the Practice Squad .

Thielen established himself with the Vikings in 2014 and was used as a wide receiver and in the special teams . He made his debut in a 34-6 win at the St. Louis Rams . In the 13th week Thielen scored his first touchdown in the NFL against the Carolina Panthers, in which he blocked an opposing punt and carried back 30 yards into the opposing end zone. For this he was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week .

Thielen made his breakthrough in the 2016 season , when he unexpectedly managed a season with almost 1,000 receiving yards. After the season, Thielen's contract ran out. The Vikings signed him again with a three-year contract worth $ 27 million.

On November 23, 2017 , he reached 1,000 captured yards in one season, which Sidney Rice did at the Vikings in 2009 . On December 19, 2017, he was nominated for the first time for the Pro Bowl , as well as the following season, in which he was second in the NFL with 105 passports caught.

In April 2019, he signed an extension of his contract with the Vikings, which runs until 2021, for a further four years for 64 million US dollars. In the 2019 season , he suffered a thigh injury in week 7 against the Detroit Lions , which he suffered from for a long time. He completely missed six games after playing 87 straight games for the Vikings. In the regular season he came to only 30 trapped passes and 418 yards and six touchdowns. In the first play-off game of the Vikings, the 26:20 victory over the New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card Round, Thielen played an important role. First he underwent a fumble early in the game , with seven trapped passes for 129 yards, including a 43-yard catch in the decisive drive of extra time, but Thielen was ultimately a key factor in the victory.

NFL statistics

season team Games Receiving Rushing Fumbles
GP GS Rec Yds Avg Lng TD Att Yds Avg Lng TD Fum Lost
2014 Minnesota Vikings 16 2 8th 137 17.1 44T 1 - - - - - 0 0
2015 Minnesota Vikings 16 2 12 144 12.0 30th 0 4th 89 22.3 41 0 0 0
2016 Minnesota Vikings 16 10 69 967 14.0 71T 5 2 15th 7.5 11 0 2 1
2017 Minnesota Vikings 16 16 91 1,276 14.0 65T 4th 1 11 11.0 11 0 3 2
2018 Minnesota Vikings 16 16 113 1,373 12.2 68 9 5 30th 6.0 15th 0 1 1
2019 Minnesota Vikings 10 10 30th 418 13.9 44 6th 4th 6th 1.5 3 1 0 0
Total 90 56 323 4,315 13.4 71 25th 16 151 9.4 41 0 6th 4th
Source: NFL.com

Private life

Thielen has been married to his wife Caitlin since 2015, with whom he has two sons.

Web links

Commons : Adam Thielen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Craig: Wide receiver Adam Thielen isn't just a Vikings spare part. In: Star Tribune . startribune.com, August 20, 2016, accessed January 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Minnesota State Mavericks College Statistics on msumavericks.com. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Made in Minnesota on theplayerstribune.com. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ Arif Hasan: Minnesota Vikings Announce 7 Practice Squad Signings and Sign J'Marcus Webb, Cut Troy Kropog on dailynorseman.com. September 1, 2013, accessed January 11, 2020.
  5. ↑ Minnesota Vikings at St. Louis Rams - September 7th, 2014 on pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved January 16, 2018
  6. ↑ Thielen Named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week. In: Minnesota Vikings. vikings.com, December 3, 2014, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Conor Orr: NFC unsung heroes: Giving credit where credit is due on nfl.com. January 17, 2017, accessed on January 11, 2020.
  8. ↑ Chris Wesseling: Vikings bring back Adam Thielen on three-year dea on nfl.com. March 15, 2017, accessed January 11, 2020.
  9. ↑ Courtney Cronin: Adam Thielen first Vikings receiver to reach 1,000 yards since 2009. espn.com, November 24, 2017, accessed on January 16, 2018 (English).
  10. ↑ NFL announces 2018 Pro Bowl rosters. In: nfl.com. NFL, December 19, 2017, accessed January 16, 2018 .
  11. ↑ 4 Vikings Selected to 2019 Pro Bowl. In: vikings.com. Minnesota Vikings, December 18, 2018, accessed January 2, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Herbie Teope: Vikings, Adam Thielen agree to 4-year, $ 64M extension . In: nfl.com. April 12, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019.
  13. ↑ Chris Tomasson: Hamstring injury still slowing Vikings receiver Adam Thielen. In: St. Paul Pioneer Press . November 8, 2019, accessed January 11, 2020.
  14. ↑ Tim Daniels: Vikings' Adam Thielen Questionable After Stitches for 'Bad Cut' on Ankle Injury on bleacherreport.com. January 9, 2020, accessed on January 11, 2020.
  15. ↑ Adam Thielen's secret: Failure to flush the toilet down on ran.de. January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020.
  16. ↑ Career statistics on nfl.com. Accessed August 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Thielen, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thielen, Adam John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit Lakes , Minnesota