The 2018 season was a bad one overall for the Minnesota Vikings, but if there was one unit that took a complete beating, it was the offensive line. With their coach, Tony Sparano, dying just days before the start of training camp, the Vikings didn’t have the leadership they had in the trenches for previous seasons and when starting guard Nick Easton went down with a neck injury, they were like a turtle on their back.
With the offensive line struggling, the protection around quarterback Kirk Cousins quickly deteriorated and the running game became almost non-existent as offensive coordinator John DeFilippo lost all faith in the unit (or at least his playcalling dictated that was the case).