Going into the 2020 season, Minnesota Vikings’ head coach Mike Zimmer made the declaration that he had never had a bad defense. While that might have been true going into the 2020 season, it certainly wasn’t true when the smoke cleared and the dust settled on the team’s 7-9 campaign. The Vikings were near the bottom of nearly every meaningful defensive category and struggled to stop pretty much everybody in the second half of the year.
The team has made a ton of additions to try to reverse that trend going into this season, adding players like Dalvin Tomlinson and Patrick Peterson (among others) while welcoming back star defensive end Danielle Hunter and run-stuffer Michael Pierce after he opted out of the 2020 season.