The Minnesota Vikings found a way to lose a game the Los Angeles Chargers by a score of 28-24. It’s a truly remarkable how they out Chargered the Chargers.
The outlook for the 0-3 Vikings is pretty bleak. Only 2.4% of teams that have started 0-3 have made the playoffs in the Super Bowl era with the latest being the 2018 Houston Texans.
Buy Vikings TicketsAs we look at this team, there are multiple angles that you can look at in both a positive and negative way. What we are going to do is start by looking at the micro and work towards the macro.
Here are the offensive grades for the Vikings via Pro Football Focus.
Top 5 overall
- TE Josh Oliver: 86.5
- WR Justin Jefferson: 84.5
- RG Ed Ingram: 81.5
- LG Ezra Cleveland: 79.9
- QB Kirk Cousins: 71.5
Bottom 5 overall
- TE T.J. Hockenson: 54.5
- FB C.J. Ham: 57.4
- WR Brandon Powell: 58.6
- WR K.J. Osborn: 58.8
- LT Christian Darrisaw: 61.1
Passing grades
- Kirk Cousins: 71.0
Rushing grades
- RB Ty Chandler: 71.2
- RB Alexander Mattison: 70.2
- QB Kirk Cousins: 57.9
Receiving grades
- WR Justin Jefferson: 83.7
- TE Josh Oliver: 74.2
- FB C.J. Ham: 65.7
- WR Jordan Addison: 63.0
- WR Brandon Powell: 58.9
- RB Ty Chandler: 58.2
- WR K.J. Osborn: 55.1
- TE T.J. Hockenson: 53.4
- RB Alexander Mattison: 46.9
Pass blocking grades
- RB Alexander Mattison: 77.4
- TE Josh Oliver: 75.8
- LT Christian Darrisaw: 75.3
- FB C.J. Ham: 73.1
- C Austin Schlottmann: 73.1
- LG Ezra Cleveland: 72.3
- TE T.J. Hockenson: 69.6
- RT Brian O’Neill: 65.7
- RG Ed Ingram: 47.9
- RB Ty Chandler: 38.0
Run blocking grades
- RG Ed Ingram: 91.1
- LG Ezra Cleveland: 86.2
- WR K.J. Osborn: 81.0
- TE Josh Oliver: 79.1
- TE Johnny Mundt: 72.9
- RT Brian O’Neill: 71.8
- C Austin Schlottmann: 67.5
- TE T.J. Hockenson: 58.6
- WR Justin Jefferson: 55.5
- LT Christian Darrisaw: 52.1
- WR Jordan Addison: 37.7
