Head Coach Kevin O’Connell extended similar praise Reichard’s way as the 2025 season wound down.<\/p>\n
“My confidence in him is supreme; it couldn’t be higher,” he said, explaining how valuable it is “when your kicker can go out there and you can pretty much lock it in that you’re going to get three points.”<\/p>\n
“He’s earned that,” continued O’Connell, “to have the expectation of not only myself, but Matt, and everybody on our football team, that he’s going to go out there and do his job. He’s been phenomenal.”<\/p>\n
Reichard is the youngest First-Team All-Pro kicker since Miami’s Jason Sanders in 2020 (25). He is now one of 12 kickers total, age 25 or younger (including a 22-year-old Walsh), to garner First-Team honors.<\/p>\n
In 30 games, Reichard is 57-for-65 (87.7%) on attempted field goals, and he is perfect on 69 extra-points.<\/p>\n
DePaola last year made history as the first long snapper to ever receive a nod to the Pro Bowl in three consecutive years; though he wasn’t voted to the all-star game this year, All-Pro is a significant recognition based strictly on on-field performance.<\/p>\n
DePaola, who served as a season-long captain for the second consecutive season, anchored a Vikings specialist group that was outstandingly consistent throughout the season.<\/p>\n
Wright also excelled in 2025 after snaps by DePaola, tying for fifth in gross punting average (49.0), ranked third with a net average of 44.5 and boomed the longest punt of the season (77 yards).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head Coach Kevin O’Connell extended similar praise Reichard’s way as the 2025 season wound down. “My confidence in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[38855,7,233,259,2529,1025,2818,1219,6,234,23890],"class_list":["post-666373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-vikings","tag-andrew-depaola","tag-football","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-news-index","tag-news-press-release","tag-news-team","tag-nfl","tag-vikings","tag-will-reichard"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115871405003923278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666373","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=666373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}