With the 2017 NFL season being over, we’ve seen several sets of rankings floating around on the internet. One section of the game that doesn’t get looked at too often is Special Teams, but we have two sets of 2017 Special Teams rankings to look at, and they each say slightly different things about the Minnesota Vikings.
We’ll start with the bad side first. Rick Gosselin, the long-time columnist for the Dallas Morning News, released his annual special teams rankings, as he has done for many years now. He has the Vikings’ special teams as the 23rd-best unit in the league in 2017.