Vikings Statistical Rankings Through Week 11: Offense
Josh Frey
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The Minnesota Vikings went into Denver during Week 11 and narrowly lost to the Broncos by a score of 21-20.
With the weekend behind us, today we will be breaking down the Vikings statistical rankings on offense through Week 11 as a whole, and where individual players stand. Shout out to Pro-Football-Reference, Pro Football Focus, and nfeloapp.com for the numbers that went into this article. Stay tuned for the defensive rankings later today as well.
NOTE: Individual PFF Grades are sorted to include players with at least 20% of the league leader’s number of dropbacks, carries, or targets. In addition, with many of the teams now having their bye weeks behind them, we’ll be transitioning towards per game numbers for the team statistics.
Team Offense
Total Offense
- Points Scored per Game: 23.0 (11th)
- Total Yards per Game: 360.5 (10th)
- Plays per Game: 64.5 (13th)
- Yards per Play: 5.6 (9th)
- Turnovers per Game: 1.82 (28th)
- First Downs per Game: 20.8 (11th)
- Penalties per Game: 4.91 (2nd)
- Third-Down Conversion Percentage: 41.3% (12th)
- Fourth-Down Conversion Percentage: 73.7% (2nd)
- Red Zone TD Percentage: 50.0% (T-19th)
- Overall PFF Grade: 80.2 (5th)
- EPA/play: -0.00 (11th)
Sunday certainly wasn’t the greatest night for the Vikings offense. They got off to a strong start in the first half, but Denver’s defense figured out how to slow them down towards the end of the game by constantly applying pressure on Josh Dobbs. Regardless, this group continues to hover around the top 10 in many categories. They just need to figure out how to slow down the turnover issues (again).
Passing Offense
- Completions per Game: 26.1 (2nd)
- Pass Attempts per Game: 37.9 (5th)
- Passing Yards per Game: 266.7 (3rd)
- Net Yards per Attempt: 6.6 (8th)
- Passing First Downs per Game: 13.4 (4th)
- Passing TDs per Game: 2.00 (T-2nd)
- Interceptions per Game: 0.55 (6th)
- Passing PFF Grade: 84.2 (3rd)
- Pass-Blocking PFF Grade: 78.1 (1st)
- Receiving PFF Grade: 76.5 (7th)
- EPA/pass: 0.06 (12th)
Rushing Offense
- Carries per Game: 24.3 (25th)
- Rushing Yards per Game: 93.8 (28th)
- Yards per Carry: 3.9 (25th)
- Rushing First Downs per Game: 4.91 (27th)
- Rushing TDs per Game: 0.45 (25th)
- Fumbles Lost per Game: 1.27 (32nd)
- Rushing PFF Grade: 69.9 (24th)
- Run-Blocking PFF Grade: 68.2 (6th)
- EPA/run: -0.17 (24th)
The Vikings have finally started taking a bit of a step back in some of the passing rankings with Dobbs at QB rather than Kirk Cousins, but it has come with an improved rushing attack. Sunday night in Denver was arguably the best game the Vikings have had in the ground game all season as they totaled 178 rushing yards and jumped up in just about every ranking.
The one problem continues to be fumbles. The Vikings had two more fumbles this past weekend, which proved very costly in the game. As a result, Minnesota is once again at the very bottom of the league with the most fumbles of any team.
Individual Players
QB Josh Dobbs
- Completions: 230 (9th)
- Pass Attempts: 362 (5th)
- Completion Percentage: 63.5% (24th)
- Passing Yards: 2216 (20th)
- Yards per Attempt: 6.1 (29th)
- Passing First Downs: 113 (T-12th)
- Passing TDs: 12 (T-16th)
- Interceptions: 6 (T-14th-most)
- Carries: 70 (44th)
- Rushing Yards: 389 (36th)
- Rushing TDs: 6 (T-8th)
- PFF Grade: 67.3 (T-22nd among 38 qualifying QBs)
RB Alexander Mattison
- Carries: 148 (8th)
- Rushing Yards: 542 (20th)
- Yards per Carry: 3.7 (37th)
- Rushing First Downs: 21 (T-37th)
- Rushing TDs: 0
- PFF Grade: 58.6 (53rd among 59 qualifying RBs)
WR Jordan Addison
- Targets: 72 (T-26th)
- Receptions: 48 (T-27th)
- Receiving Yards: 647 (24th)
- Receiving First Downs: 27 (T-32nd)
- Receiving TDs: 7 (T-3rd)
- PFF Grade: 71.5 (T-40th among 105 qualifying WRs)
WR K.J. Osborn
- Targets: 51 (T-65th)
- Receptions: 33 (T-72nd)
- Receiving Yards: 384 (T-69th)
- Receiving First Downs: 18 (T-71st)
- Receiving TDs: 2 (T-63rd)
- PFF Grade: 54.2 (96th among 105 qualifying WRs)
WR Brandon Powell
- Targets: 31 (T-130th)
- Receptions: 22 (T-119th)
- Receiving Yards: 224 (T-122nd)
- Receiving First Downs: 14 (T-95th)
- Receiving TDs: 1 (T-104th)
- PFF Grade: 63.4 (68th among 105 qualifying WRs)
TE T.J. Hockenson
- Targets: 102 (8th)
- Receptions: 75 (5th)
- Receiving Yards: 736 (14th)
- Receiving First Downs: 40 (11th)
- Receiving TDs: 4 (T-22nd)
- PFF Grade: 79.7 (4th among 40 qualifying TEs)
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Josh Frey is a Class of 2020 graduate of The College of Idaho and managing editor of PurplePTSD.com. When he’s not writing about the NFL, Josh enjoys running, gaming, or rooting for the Milwaukee Brewers and Bucks. Check out his Twitter account: @Freyed_Chicken.