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• While Boykin chuckled at the suggestion that the Vikings would be concerned about him, "I mean, I don't necessarily think people are scheming for me or anything," he said.
• There's no doubt the Packers will be counting on him again this week.
• With Cobb on injured reserve with the designation for return (the earliest he could play is Dec. 15 at Dallas) with a broken leg and Jones unlikely to play after sitting out practice again Thursday, the 6-foot-2, 218-pound Boykin is likely to see Aaron Rodgers throw some passes his way.
• And with tight end Jermichael Finley out after suffering a frightening neck injury, the Packers will be relying on previously unheralded players such as Boykin.
• "If you have a player truly say, 'It's not about me, it's about the team,' then he would be one of the guys who'd be, as they say, the poster child of that campaign," wide receivers coach Edgar Bennett said.
• "I cannot stress enough, I love that quality about him. You've seen guys where they go out and have success and it goes to their head. This kid is humble.
• "I love his mindset. Whenever we get to the point where we think we've got it all figured out or we've arrived, then it's all downhill from there. ... What you did last week -- that doesn't matter.
• "What will you do this week? When you step on the field, they don't care about what you did last week. Show what you're capable of this week."
• As an undrafted rookie free agent last year, Boykin saw action in 10 games and played 96 snaps after making the roster as the No. 6 wide receiver.
• His biggest reception was a fourth-down catch against the Vikings in the regular-season finale that picked up a key first down, although he injured his ankle on the play and missed the playoffs.
• With McCarthy using Cobb, Jones and Nelson almost exclusively in the team's three-receiver sets, Boykin had played just 10 snaps through the first four games this season.
• Then at Baltimore on Oct. 13, Jones injured a knee in the first quarter and Cobb was lost to a broken leg just before halftime.
• After a rocky start -- he dropped the first two passes thrown his way -- Boykin had a 43-yard catch-and-run that jump-started the Packers' offense in the second half.
• In the past two weeks, he's played more snaps (128) than he had in his career up to that point.
• "From the first day he came here, you could see he belonged on the field," said McCarthy, recalling that Boykin came as a tryout player to the 2012 post-draft rookie

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