"I think for the first time here since I've been here you look around the room and I don't know who's going to make the team, and that's a great thing," Thielen said during mandatory minicamp. "That competition breeds just elevation of play and you hear Dan (Morgan) and Dave (Canales) talk about that all the time, they just want to raise the floor, and when you raise the floor, it raises the ceiling, so I'm excited about what that brings.
"I know it's made me have to step up my game, and get better and better and prove my worth. At the end of the day, the more players you have in a room, on the offense, on a team, the more you have to prove yourself every day and, it makes you better."