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Minnesota Vikings Defense vs Wide Receivers (2025)

In 2025, the Minnesota Vikings allowed 115.9 receiving yards per game to wide receivers — #5 of 32 (1 = stingiest). Our persistence testing says single-season ranks like this mostly do NOT carry over year to year — use with that in mind.

Everything they allowed to wide receivers, per game

Metric	Season	Last 4	Last 2
Targets allowed	14.3	14.8	13.5
Receptions allowed	8.8	9.2	8.5
Rec yds allowed	115.9	107.0	91.0
Rec TD allowed	0.5	0.2	0.5
Yards per target	8.1	7.3	6.7
Explosive receptions (20+)	1.5	1.5	1.5

Last 4 = weeks 15–18; last 2 = weeks 17–18. 2025 regular season.

Upcoming: week 1 vs Green Bay Packers

Wide Receivers they'll face first: Christian Watson, Jayden Reed.

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Methodology: computed from nflverse play-by-play; a quarter's yards are the yards gained on plays snapped in that quarter. Averages use each player's games played, not team games. Updated 2026-09-13.

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