2021 Team & Player Stats

The Vikings finished 2021 with an 8-9 mark that ushered in an offseason of change after the team missed the playoffs for the second consecutive season.

The Vikings and other teams played a 17-game season for the first time in team history, and Minnesota had a knack for making things closer than they needed to be and keeping them closer against favored teams.

A whopping 14 games were decided by one score, including 12 in a row from Week 4 through Week 16. The first two weeks — a 27-24 loss at Cincinnati in overtime and a 34-33 loss on the game’s final play at Arizona — provided quite a bit of foreshadowing.

Here’s a look at 21 “big numbers” for the team and players from the 2021 season.

Positive: The Vikings finished with 425 points for, the fourth-most in a season in team history.

Negative: The Vikings finished with 426 points against, the sixth-most in team history.

The point differential of minus-1 was the skinniest margin since the 1987 team finished plus-1 before going on its magical postseason run.