The Minnesota Vikings have waived Adam Thielen on the veteran broad receiver’s request, the staff introduced Monday.
“Final week, Adam’s illustration approached the staff and requested if we’d be prepared to launch Adam, expressing his need to play a much bigger function within the remaining weeks of what he has indicated will likely be his last NFL season. Following discussions by way of the weekend and out of respect for Adam, we’ve got agreed to offer him the chance to pursue extra enjoying time elsewhere. Adam is likely one of the all-time nice Vikings, and we want him and his household continued success,” normal supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah stated in a press release.
Thielen, who was a wholesome inactive for Minnesota’s loss at Seattle on Sunday, has performed 10 of his 12 seasons with the Vikings. He rejoined the franchise this season after he was traded to Minnesota by the Carolina Panthers, who he had performed for in 2023 and ’24 after he was launched by the Vikings in March of ’23.
In a press release posted to social media, Thielen, 35, stated he is identified because the spring that this may be his last NFL season.
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— Adam Thielen (@athielen19) December 1, 2025
“As a Minnesota native, placing on this uniform through the years and representing this neighborhood each on and off the sphere has at all times meant that rather more to me. This staff is in my bones. It is in my coronary heart and it is a part of my DNA. I’ll ALWAYS be a Minnesota Viking,” he wrote in his assertion.”
Thielen has eight receptions for 69 yards in 11 video games this season, however he had a 1,000-yard season as not too long ago as 2023 when he had 103 catches for 1,014 yards for the Panthers.
He ranks third all-time in landing catches (55), fourth in receptions (542) and fifth in receiving yards (6,751) in Vikings franchise historical past.