Perhaps no defense in the National Football League has as many top-level defensive players as the Minnesota Vikings do. They have elite players on every level of the defense, and thanks to the familiarity they have with Mike Zimmer’s scheme, they know exactly what they need to do and how to do it in order to make plays and shut down opposing offenses.
When Adam Schein of NFL.com put together his list of the NFL’s most indispensable defensive players, you knew that a member of the Vikings was going to make the list. It was just a member of which one it would be.