Vikings 2024 Player Award Tracker | Week 7
The Minnesota Vikings have the league’s seventh-best odds to win the Super Bowl, situated around a +1100 moneyline after five games and five wins.
Vikings 2024 Player Award Tracker | Week 7
Multiple players are also in the mix for individual awards.
So, these are the four Vikings players and coaches who could realistically take home individual award hardware at season’s end. They’re ranked in ascending order (No. 1 = likeliest to win award).
4. Dallas Turner
Defensive Rookie of the Year
Odds to Win DROY: +1400
When Week 1 kicked off, Turner was the frontrunner to win DROY (+500). He then notched a sack in his first career game, jumping out to a hot start. Life was good.
But he injured his knee in Week 2, causing him to miss Week 3, and Turner only played a handful of snaps in the wins over the Packers and Jets. Turner is still in the mix to win DROY, but he’s a longshot. The rookie defender needs a mammoth breakout game to stay in the mix.
Los Angeles Rams EDGE rusher Jared Verse could be in the driver’s seat for this one.
3. Sam Darnold
MVP
Odds to Win MVP: +1600
Darnold ranks ninth per EPA+CPOE, an efficiency metric measuring expected wins added among all qualifying quarterbacks. The guy utterly cooked through the season’s first three games, only cooling off recently.
He still has MVP odds, though, ranking seventh through six weeks and inhabiting moneyline territory with Brock Purdy (San Francisco 49ers) and Joe Burrow (Cincinnati Bengals).
2. Justin Jefferson
Offensive Player of the Year
Odds to Win OPOY: +500
Only Saquon Barkley (Philadelphia Eagles) and Derrick Henry (Baltimore Ravens) outrank Jefferson for OPOY through four weeks.
He’s on pace for 1,530 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns on one of the two unbeaten teams in the business. Of course, Jefferson has already won OPOY, so this would be his second achievement if he can oust Barkley and Henry, among others, for the trophy.
An injury is the only thing that would derail Jefferson from consideration.
1. Kevin O’Connell
Coach of the Year
Odds to Win COY: +140
Unless one loves what the Los Angeles Chargers or Washington Commanders are doing this season, O’Connell is absolutely in line to win COY.
He’s helped reclaim Sam Darnold’s career and is rapidly embodying the title of “quarterback whisperer.” Meanwhile, his team was only supposed to win about six or seven games this season, and it could reach those totals by Halloween.
O’Connell has hit his groove as a head coach. His team would need a colossal collapse for O’Connell to exit the race.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his daily YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The show features guests, analysis, and opinion on all things related to the purple team, with 4-7 episodes per week. His MIN obsession dates back to 1996. Listed guilty pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doors (the band). He follows the NBA as closely as the NFL.
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