9 Vikings Received All-Pro Votes
The Minnesota Vikings completely struck out in Pro Bowl voting last month, but the All-Pro selection process proved to be much kinder, with nine players getting attention in the voting cycle.
The list shows where Minnesota is getting noticed and who earned All-Pro traction.
Kicker Will Reichard and long snapper Andrew DePaola ultimately pulled down All-Pro honors, while seven other teammates were in the mix.
The Vikings Who Received All-Pro Votes
The Vikings were not snubbed in All-Pro voting.
Andrew DePaola | LS
9 First-Place Votes | 31 Overall Votes
It’s tricky to adjudicate long snappers — they don’t really have “stats” — but there’s just a common understanding among NFL experts that DePaola is the best of the best.
His fifth career All-Pro honor confirms it.
C.J. Ham | FB
2 Overall Votes
Not too many fullbacks play in the NFL anymore, but among the handful, Ham is one of the very best.
He also treated the Vikings’ Week 18 game as a goodbye, with all the retirement trimmings. His All-Pro votes may be the last notable bit of news for Ham after 11 seasons in the NFL.
Brian O’Neill | OT
1 Overall Vote
O’Neill was his normal O’Neillian self in 2025, holding down the right side of the Vikings’ offensive line. He produced an 81.6 Pro Football Focus grade, the second-best of his career next to this 2022 campaign.
Myles Price | KR, PR
1 Overall Vote
This man became an undrafted revelation for the 2025 Vikings.
Price won the punt and kick returning jobs at training camp and in the preseason, carrying the momentum into the regular season. Many of Price’s sweet returns were negated by boneheaded penalties from others, but generally speaking, Minnesota found its return man for the next several seasons.
And he was basically free from undrafted free agency.
Jalen Redmond | DT
1 Overall Vote
Redmond has become one of the NFL’s most efficient interior defenders, even if his name still hasn’t pierced the national discourse. He closed 2025 with a 72.7 PFF grade, six sacks, and an 11th-place finish among all defensive tackles. He also ranked fourth in batted passes, a quiet tell of how disruptive he was at all times.
The mandate entering 2025 was straightforward for Redmond: prove 2024 wasn’t a one-off. Redmond did that quickly. Week after week, his production held, and the perception shifted from “cool story” to legitimate leaguewide acknowledgement among hardcore football enthusiasts.
Redmond is the kind of player Vikings fans point to as evidence of organizational competence, a UFL find who climbed into real NFL stardom before most of the league noticed. He’s still anonymous to casual fans, but offensive coordinators are well aware.
The upstart Viking has played himself into a market north of $12 million per year. As an exclusive rights free agent, his negotiating power is capped, meaning he’s likely to stay in Minnesota.
Will Reichard | K
15 First-Place Votes | 55 Overall Votes
The Vikings’ crown jewel in 2025, Reichard snagged the most First-Team All-Pro votes on the team, scoring the upset over Dallas Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey. Until this year, Aubrey was universally known as the best kicker in the world. Now, Reichard’s All-Pro nod challenges that assumption.
Harrison Smith | S
1 Overall Vote
Smith turned on the gas in December, showing everyone that he had one final stretch of Hall of Fame-bound prowess. Nobody anywhere expected Smith to garner All-Pro attention, but perhaps on his way out the door — he may retire — Smith got a lifetime achievement All-Pro vote.
He’s also a two-time All-Pro in the first place (2017, 2018).
Eric Wilson | ILB
1 Overall Vote
Wilson became a real problem for offenses — right away to start the season.
Among off-ball linebackers in 2025, he finished first in sacks and quarterback pressures, second in forced fumbles, 13th in defensive stops, and 32nd in tackles. None of that was expected in March. Not by a longshot. When general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah brought him in, Wilson registered as insurance. A veteran body. Something to cover a scenario. He erased that framing by taking a starting job and never giving it back.
Wilson is 31 and still dictates plays, which goes beyond scheme. Brian Flores puts players in position, and Wilson nailed it — over and over — in his first season back with the Vikings since 2020. Wilson started hot in Week 1 at Chicago and maintained that level all season, forcing offenses to account for him at all times.
Wilson is scheduled to hit free agency in eight weeks. It’s a safe bet that he might work where Flores lands or stay in Minnesota with Flores, if applicable.
Ryan Wright | P
1 First-Place Vote | 8 Overall Votes
Back in the 2025 offseason, no one was 100% sure that the Vikings would bring Wright back as the punter. They did — and he provided them eight All-Pro votes for their troubles.
Wright’s career began with a bang as a rookie in 2022, but he never wholly replicated the production. This year, though, he got closer to the 2022 numbers than in 2023 and 2024.
He’ll be back in 2026.
It’s worth noting that Justin Jefferson received zero All-Pro votes for the first time in his career.
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