The Minnesota Vikings’ 2024 season ended early, but if they allocate resources correctly, they can return to the playoffs in 2025.

Monday’s night NFC wild card game transpired like a Hollywood movie script as the Rams channeled the devastation from the wildfires into motivation.

Under incredibly difficult and unprecedented circumstances, Los Angeles Rams fans made the trek from Southern California to Arizona to see their team take on the Minnesota Vikings in the wild-card round.

At the dawn of the new year, Sam Darnold was a folk hero in Minnesota. Not only did the quarterback -- no longer locally branded a reclamation project, but rather a full-blown, high-octane Pro Bowler -- sweep the rival Green Bay Packers to give the Vikings their best regular-season record in 16 years,

Sam Darnold closed out 2024 as one of the feel-good NFL stories of the year. The 27-year-old journeyman had led Minnesota to a 14-2 record ahead of a Week 18 showdown against the Detroit Lions that would decide the No.

Sam Darnold played poorly in his final two games of the season, but Vikings legend Chuck Foreman says Darnold did enough to be the Vikings' starter for the future.