{"id":127660,"date":"2025-06-13T21:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/127660\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T21:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:54:13","slug":"minnesota-vikings-offense-snubbed-by-nfl-media-rankings-ahead-of-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/127660\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Vikings offense snubbed by NFL Media rankings ahead of 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL is an offense-driven league, and quarterbacks are the conductors of the entertainment that makes it the most watched sport in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-s-top-10-offenses-in-2025-bills-bucs-ravens-headline-my-projection-broncos-coming-in-hot?campaign=Twitter_atn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NFL Media took the liberty this week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NFL Media took the liberty this week<\/a> of ranking what they saw as the ten best offenses in the NFL heading into the 2025 season. While training camp hasn&#8217;t even happened yet, and a lot could happen, they felt like they had enough information to make an informed decision on which teams to include.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>That said, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota-vikings\/347\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Vikings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Vikings<\/a> did not make the cut as a top-ten offense. However, two of their division rivals, the Packers and Lions, did.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers ranked as the eighth-best offense, while the Lions earned the third spot. The Lions have earned that ranking, but having the Packers on the list while neglecting the Vikings is a decision that will need to be explained a little bit deeper. For the Vikings to be left off with the likes of Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, Aaron Jones, Christian Darrisaw, Brian O&#8217;Neill, and more, it has to boil down to the uncertainty of J.J. McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they can revisit this list next year and see how things have shaped up.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Vikings Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/vikingswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/vikings\/2025\/06\/13\/vikings-offense-snubbed-rankings-2025-season\/84179779007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Vikings offense snubbed by NFL Media rankings ahead of 2025 season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Vikings offense snubbed by NFL Media rankings ahead of 2025 season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL is an offense-driven league, and quarterbacks are the conductors of the entertainment that makes it the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2073],"tags":[6912,1508,441,7,1519,8265,2780,147,233,259,2529,6,1551,428,4378,10957,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-127660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-aaron-jones","9":"tag-christian-darrisaw","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-j-j-mccarthy","13":"tag-jordan-addison","14":"tag-justin-jefferson","15":"tag-lions","16":"tag-minnesota","17":"tag-minnesota-vikings","18":"tag-minnesotavikings","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-offense","21":"tag-packers","22":"tag-the-lions","23":"tag-the-packers","24":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114678285309904428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}