5 Hot Takes That Could Reshape the Vikings 2025 Season
You are one week away from watching the Minnesota Vikings’ first preseason game, a duel with the Houston Texans, and about five weeks from the regular season opener at the Chicago Bears.
From surprises to predictions, here are 5 bold hot takes that could completely reshape the Vikings’ 2025 season. You’ve been warned, as the regular season is five weeks away.
The writers at VikingsTerritory will have plenty of individual predictions between now and then, but to get you ready for the 2025 campaign, these are five hot takes about the Vikings this season.
They’re listed in no particular order.
5 Hot Takes for the 2025 Vikings
A peek at some predictions for the purple team in 2025.
1. The Vikings Will Finally Beat the Lions
Vikings skipper Kevin O’Connell toppled the Detroit Lions in his first-ever meeting three years ago — and then that was it. Minnesota has lost to Detroit five consecutive times. A nauseating streak.
That will snap this season. Whether at U.S. Bank Stadium or Ford Field, O’Connell will stop the drought, beat the Lions, and begin to flip the script on the Lions’ recent stranglehold on the NFC North.
2. Will Reichard Stomps Late-Season Struggles from Last Year
Reichard was perfect until the game when he injured his quad last season. Utterly perfect during his Vikings maiden voyage.
Following the ailment, he banged through 10 of 16 on field goals with a 62.5% accuracy, which is not good. Not good at all. This season, fully healed from the quad injury, Reichard will return to form and morph into a Top 10 NFL kicker.
Purple and gold fans will always have hesitations about fully trusting a kicker, but Reichard will continue to turn the tide on Minnesota’s kicking demons. You can trust him.
3. Jordan Mason Equitably Splits Rushing Workload with Aaron Jones
Jordan Mason was one of the NFL’s most productive running backs last year on a per-carry basis. His efficiency popped off the charts, filling in for Christian McCaffrey, whose 2024 campaign went utterly pear-shaped.
And at age 26, Mason is in the absolute prime of his career. There’s a universe where he should be the RB1, and Aaron Jones gets 35%-40% of all touches. But Minnesota is paying Jones handsomely, and he’s the RB1 this season.
By the time the regular season ends, Jones will have encountered an injury or two, allowing Mason to take the reins on Sundays as Minnesota’s primary running back. Their rushing statistics will be similar by January.
4. Jalen Redmond Will Not Be Forgotten
The Vikings onboarded Jonathan Allen and Javon Hargrave in March — out of nowhere — leaving Redmond as a bit of an odd man out on the defensive depth chart. Redmond played wonderfully last season as a UFL convert.
Some believe that Redmond could be lost in the shuffle with the arrival of Allen and Hargrave, but this hot take suggests that Redmond won’t allow it. He’ll still bank his tackles for loss and make an impact whenever he’s on the field.
Redmond will have staying power with the Vikings.
5. Dwight McGlothern Gets a Shot
If NFL training camps featured a Pro Bowl, McGlothern would get the call.,
Every day, the man rips a new interception from the heavens — so much so that it has become a thing. “What time will McGlothern have a pick today?”
McGlothern will make the Vikings’ roster as the CB4 or CB5, but by season’s end, he’ll do enough on the field for fans to endorse more playing time. The guy might be the real deal.
The Viking Age‘s Tyler Miller wrote about McGlothern this week, “Sure, the kid was undrafted, but there is a reason that Minnesota decided to pick him up as a UDFA and give him a chance. He has the traits that a team looks for in a solid corner: good hands, stays with his man, and impressive footspeed.”
“And the fact that he has three interceptions in back-to-back-to-back days of Vikings training camp really says something about his chances of making the final roster. Right now, in training camp, McGlothern is opening up some eyes as he impresses Flores and his defensive staff day after day.”
The McGlothern hype train is really starting to choo choo.
Miller added, “Moving forward, he’ll need to put the work he is putting in during training camp into Minnesota’s preseason games in the near future. Not a lot of the starters on either side of the ball play much during the preseason, and that bodes well for McGlothern’s chances of playing a lot in the exhibition contests to prove himself.”
“If he can keep his play at a high level in the preseason this year, he should definitely have a role with the Vikings when the regular season approaches against the Chicago Bears in Week 1 on Monday Night Football.”
Remember McGlothern’s name. He ain’t going away.
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