The Minnesota Vikings come into Thursday's Week 8 game against the Los Angeles Chargers in dire need of a victory to keep pace in the NFC North, which has been the most competitive division in all of football thus far. Fortunately, one key weapon on offense will be returning from a four-game absence for the game.

Former Pro Bowl running back Aaron Jones has been out for the team's last four games with a lingering hamstring injury that forced the team to place him on injured reserve.

As a result, the Vikings' rushing attack has seemingly taken a bit of a hit, rushing for an average of just 103.8 yards per game, the 13th least average rushing yards of any team in football thus far.

Minnesota has done a good job of overcoming both Jones' injury and the injury to second-year quarterback J

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