The late Charlie Hennigan would have loved Adam Thielen.
That’s good to know, but, uh, who the heck was Charlie Hennigan?
Well, for starters, Charlie Hennigan is the only player in the NFL record book to start a season with seven straight 100-yard receiving games. Thielen can tie that mark when the Vikings visit the Jets on Sunday.
Secondly, Hennigan was the Adam Thielen of yesteryear in terms of a small-school nobody seizing a sliver of opportunity and becoming a big-league somebody.
Undrafted by the NFL out of Northwestern (La.) State in 1958, 6-foot-1, 187-pounder tried the CFL.