Big plays could be at a premium at noon Sunday against the defending champs.<\/p>\n
In a preview of Week 7 games shared Thursday by analytics website Pro Football Focus, a few key statistics pertaining to Minnesota’s matchup at home against Philadelphia (4-2) were pulled into view.<\/p>\n
Firstly, the Eagles defense, coordinated by Vic Fangio, is careful not to allow chunk passes. Since 2024, Vangio’s unit has permitted explosives (20-plus yards) on just 10.6 percent of pass plays. That’s the lowest rate in the league \u2013 and a hurdle for the Vikings (3-2) and their offensive playmakers to overcome.<\/p>\n
Of course, the availability of second-year corner Quinyon Mitchell factors into that dilemma. Mitchell exited Thursday Night Football last week with a hamstring injury and was limited at practice Wednesday.<\/p>\n
He’s a candidate to shadow Justin Jefferson if Vangio so chooses.<\/p>\n
Mitchell, the 22nd overall draft pick in 2024, has played 99.1 percent of his snaps on the perimeter (Jefferson has aligned wide on 82.5% of his snaps versus 14.2 in the slot) and is second among NFL cornerbacks with a 48.6% completion rate allowed as the nearest defender, according to Next Gen Stats. Mitchell also ranks in the Top 10 in passes defended, passer rating against and yards per target allowed.<\/p>\n
Even if the Eagles hold Jefferson under the 11 catches (on 14 targets) for 159 yards he recorded in the 2023 meeting, they’ll have to contend with Jordan Addison and a bevy of other Minnesota playmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big plays could be at a premium at noon Sunday against the defending champs. In a preview of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,2780,8387,1025,8388,6,242,109,74893,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-451588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-justin-jefferson","11":"tag-lunch-break","12":"tag-news-index","13":"tag-news-lunch-break","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","17":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-at-minnesota-vikings-2025-reg-7","18":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115385083223263294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451588","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=451588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}