"Remember that disappointing, frustrating year Greg Jennings was having?

No? That's OK. Neither does he. Not after what he's done the last five games.

After a slow start to the season that left the fifth-year receiver at times speechless and at other times visibly angry, Jennings has once again become the Green Bay Packers' go-to guy.

In Sunday's 31-3 rout of the Minnesota Vikings at the Metrodome, it was to the tune of seven catches for 152 yards and a career-high three touchdowns. It capped a five-game stretch in which he has caught 32 passes for 520 yards and six touchdowns.

"Yeah it was planned that way, throw me every single ball," Jennings joked after Sunday's game. "No, it wasn't planned that way. That's just sometimes how the games go, and I was fortunately on the receiving end of a lot of good ones."

That wasn't the case the first five games of the season, when he caught 14 passes for 183 yards and three touchdowns and endured a three-game stretch in which he caught just two passes in each game.

After Sunday, he's back on pace for his third straight 1,000-yard season.

It was Jennings who jump-started the Packers' offense against the Vikings. After a miserable first quarter in which Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed just one pass, Jennings made a juggling catch down the right sideline and cut to the middle of the field for a 47-yard catch and run. On the play, he smoked rookie cornerback Chris Cook, who in this season's first meeting with the Packers gave up three lengthy completions.

That was all Rodgers needed to see. From there, he went after Cook until the Vikings finally benched him and replaced him with veteran Frank Walker in the second half but not before James Jones (three catches for 51 yards and a touchdown) beat Cook for a 39-yard catch down the right sideline later in the second quarter to set up Jennings' first touchdown, an 11-yarder that Rodgers threw after narrowly avoiding a sack. Jones got his touchdown against Cook on a 3-yard fade on first-and-goal with 5 seconds left in the first half to put the Packers ahead 17-3 at the break."