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Adam Thielen has enjoyed a lot of success with the Minnesota Vikings, but at one point he actually thought he might get drafted by the Green Bay Packers. Thielen recently sat down with Mark Craig of the Star Tribune, and talked about how leading up to the 2013 draft the Packers had contact with Thielen, and he thought he might be drafted with one of their two seventh round picks.
“The Packers were one of two teams that came up and talked to me right after the regional combine ended at Cowboys Stadium that year,” Thielen said to Craig. “I had that hope and dream that I’d get drafted.”
“I was pretty realistic about my chances of being drafted,” Thielen said. “And when the Packers took two receivers in the seventh round, the writing was pretty much on the wall at that point.”
Instead of taking Thielen, the Packers selected Charles Johnson and Kevin Dorsey. Dorsey played only three games with the Packers and Johnson actually also ended up with the Vikings, never playing a regular season game with the Packers.
Thielen ended up signing with the Vikings after a rookie tryout and the rest is history. Last year, Thielen caught 113 passes for 1,373 yards and nine touchdowns. He also just signed an extension with the team that lasts four years and pays him $64 million, which will keep him with the team through 2024.
No one could have known what Thielen would end up like, probably not even Thielen, but the Packers are probably kicking themselves over the decision to not spend one of the seventh round picks on him.
