Team Spotlight: Minnesota Vikings (1 Viewer)

[Maurile Tremblay]

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I'll start off by posting my projections to get us going. The idea is for others to post their own projections as well, or to comment on the projections posted by others.

Overall

546 pass attempts for 343 receptions, 3946 yards, 27 touchdowns, and 16 interceptions; 443 rushes for 1940 yards and 16 touchdowns.

QB

Brett Favre: 321 of 512 passing for 3696 yards, 25 touchdowns, and 15 interceptions; 23 rushes for 70 yards and 1 touchdowns.

Sage Rosenfels: 21 of 34 passing for 250 yards, 2 touchdowns, and 1 interceptions; 2 rushes for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns.

Tarvaris Jackson: 0 of 0 passing for 0 yards, 0 touchdowns, and 0 interceptions; 0 rushes for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns.

RB

Adrian Peterson: 301 rushes for 1377 yards and 12 touchdowns; 40 receptions for 353 yards and 1 touchdowns.

Toby Gerhart: 89 rushes for 354 yards and 3 touchdowns; 42 receptions for 311 yards and 1 touchdowns.

Al Young: 3 rushes for 11 yards and 0 touchdowns; 9 receptions for 63 yards and 0 touchdowns.

Jeff Dugan: 11 rushes for 46 yards and 0 touchdowns; 0 receptions for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns.

WR

Sidney Rice: 77 receptions for 1063 yards and 8 touchdowns; 0 rushes for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns.

Bernard Berrian: 33 receptions for 478 yards and 3 touchdowns; 0 rushes for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns.

Percy Harvin: 58 receptions for 761 yards and 5 touchdowns; 14 rushes for 79 yards and 0 touchdowns.

Jaymar Johnson: 9 receptions for 115 yards and 1 touchdowns; 0 rushes for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns.

Darius Reynaud: 9 receptions for 115 yards and 1 touchdowns; 0 rushes for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns.

TE

Visanthe Shiancoe: 53 receptions for 564 yards and 6 touchdowns.

Jim Kleinsasser: 14 receptions for 122 yards and 1 touchdowns.

 

[encaitar]

Couple of problems with this list.

First, if Favre comes back, Jackson will get the garbage time, not Sage. I don't see any reason that next year will be any different than this year with regard to QB depth, so I think you need to switch Sage and TJack's stats.

Second, I understand the idea of a team regressing a little, but you are honestly projecting 10+ less touchdowns for the Vikings this year than they had last year? Seems like a big drop off to me.

Third, do you honestly expect Peterson to have fewer touches than last year without Taylor on hand? I know Gerhart is highly thought of, but I'd expect AP to get a lot more third down work just for the fact that he knows the protection shemes and Toby doesn't. I think it's highly improbable that Peterson will have fewer receptions this season than last.

Finally, regarding the third down situation, don't you think Harvin is likely to line up at RB a lot on third down this year resulting in more carries than last year? I think it's likely and your projections seem to indicate you don't. What's your thoughts on this?

 

[BassNBrew]

Your projections for Favre are too high. He'll be sitting in a deer stand this fall.

 

[Chicago Hooligan]

Second, I understand the idea of a team regressing a little, but you are honestly projecting 10+ less touchdowns for the Vikings this year than they had last year? Seems like a big drop off to me.

I haven't looked at all the threads but I only saw Brees projected at 4k+ yards. There were 10 guys with that much last year.

 

[Lord Fantasy]

1. Kleinsasser doesn't score.

2. Curious as to where Chester Taylor's 59 pass targets go next year.

Some will probably go to Peterson, who had 57 last year. If he gets a third of those targets that would put him up there with Gore/SJax/CJ3/MJD in terms of targets. (If he gets them all then he beats Ray Rice, who had 101).

Or does Shiancoe benefit more? Or Harvin? Or does it all get spread around so much that the effect is negligible?

 

[Gopher State]

couple thoughts

Favre will be back, I think a second year with the team he has about 30 td passes

Harvin breaks out this year, total 10 td's, rec/rush/return

As a poster stated above Tjax will get the back up numbers at QB

Hard to predict AP, fumbles will determine his work load