2025 Minnesota Vikings season

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2025 Minnesota Vikings season
Owner Zygi Wilf
General manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah
Head coach Kevin O'Connell
Home field U.S. Bank Stadium

The 2025 season will be the Minnesota Vikings' 65th in the National Football League (NFL), their 10th playing their home games at U.S. Bank Stadium, their 21st under the ownership of Zygi Wilf and their fourth under the head coach/general manager tandem of Kevin O'Connell and Kwesi Adofo-Mensah.

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Draft

2025 Minnesota Vikings Draft
RoundSelectionPlayerPositionCollegeContractNotes
1 24
2TBDTraded to the Houston Texans [A]
3TBDTraded to the Jacksonville Jaguars [B]
4TBDTraded to the Jacksonville Jaguars [B]
5TBD
TBDFrom Browns [C]
6TBDTraded to the Cleveland Browns [C]
7TBDTraded to the Cleveland Browns [C]

Draft trades

  1. ↑ The Vikings traded a second-round selection, and 2024 second- and sixth-round selections to the Houston Texans in exchange for 2024 first- and seventh-round selections. [1]
  2. 1 2 The Vikings traded third- and fourth-round selections, and 2024 first- and fifth-round selections (23rd and 167th overall) to the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for a 2024 first-round selection (17th). [2]
  3. 1 2 3 The Vikings traded sixth- and seventh-round selections, and DE Za'Darius Smith to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for a fifth-round selection and a 2024 fifth-round selection. [3]

Notes

Staff

Minnesota Vikings staff
Front office
  • Owner/chairman – Zygi Wilf
  • Owner/vice chairman – Leonard Wilf
  • Owner/president – Mark Wilf
  • Chief operating officer – Andrew Miller
  • General manager – Kwesi Adofo-Mensah
  • Executive vice president of football operations – Rob Brzezinski
  • Senior vice president of player personnel – Ryan Grigson
  • Vice president of football operations – Demitrius Washington
  • Director of player personnel – Ryan Monnens
  • Assistant director of player personnel – Chisom Opara
  • Director of pro personnel – Sam DeLuca
  • Director of college scouting – Mike Sholiton
  • Assistant director of college scouting – Pat Roberts
  • Senior personnel executive – Jamaal Stephenson
Head coaches
  • Head coach – Kevin O'Connell
  • Assistant head coach/outside linebackers – Mike Pettine
  • Assistant to the head coach – Henry Schneider IV
Offensive coaches
 
Defensive coaches
  • Defensive coordinator – Brian Flores
  • Defensive line – Marcus Dixon
  • Assistant defensive line – Patrick Hill
  • Inside linebackers – Mike Siravo
  • Assistant inside linebackers – Thad Bogardus
  • Passing game coordinator/defensive backs – Daronte Jones
  • Safeties – Michael Hutchings
  • Quality control/defense – Lance Bennett
  • Defensive assistant – Imarjaye Albury
Special teams coaches
  • Special teams coordinator – Matt Daniels
  • Assistant special teams – Dalmin Gibson
Strength and conditioning
  • Director of player performance – Josh Hingst
  • Director of football development/Assistant performance coach – Derik Keyes
  • Assistant player performance – Marquis Johnson

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Current roster

Minnesota Vikings roster
Quarterbacks (QB)

Running backs (RB)

Wide receivers (WR)

Tight ends (TE)

 Offensive linemen (OL)

Defensive linemen (DL)

 Linebackers (LB)

Defensive backs (DB)

Special teams

Reserve

Impending free agents (FA)

Restricted free agents (RFA)

As of January 17, 2025. Rookies in italics.

34 active, 17 reserve, 24 free agent(s)

Preseason

The Vikings' preseason opponents and schedule will be announced in May, in conjunction with the release of the regular season schedule.

Regular season

2025 opponents

The Vikings will play eight games at home and nine on the road in 2025. Exact dates and times will be announced in May. In addition to home and away matchups against each of their NFC North divisional rivals, they are also scheduled to play against each of the teams in the NFC East and AFC North, as well as the teams that also finished in second place in each of the NFC South, NFC West and AFC West. [4]

CategoryHomeAway
Division opponents
(NFC North)		 Chicago Bears
Detroit Lions
Green Bay Packers
Conference opponents
(NFC East)		 Philadelphia Eagles
Washington Commanders 		Dallas Cowboys
New York Giants
Conference opponents
(based on 2024 division placement)		 Atlanta Falcons Seattle Seahawks
Interconference opponents
(AFC North)		 Baltimore Ravens
Cincinnati Bengals 		Cleveland Browns
Pittsburgh Steelers
Interconference opponent
(based on 2024 division placement)		— Los Angeles Chargers

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References

  1. ↑ "Vikings acquire second 1st-round pick in trade with Texans". MSN.com. March 15, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
  2. ↑ Young, Lindsey (April 25, 2024). "Vikings Draft Alabama Outside Linebacker Dallas Turner with 17th Pick After Trade with Jaguars". vikings.com. Minnesota Vikings Football. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
  3. ↑ Poisal, Anthony (May 16, 2023). "Browns acquire Pro Bowl DE Za'Darius Smith in trade with Vikings". clevelandbrowns.com. Cleveland Browns. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
  4. ↑ "2025 Opponents Determined". NFL Football Operations. January 6, 2025. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
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