Five keys for the Vikings defense in 2020

How can the Vikings not take a step back in 2020? Here are five things the team needs to do.

Have Ifeadi Odenigbo become a competent starter

Griffen hasn’t signed anywhere, sure, but with the way the Vikings drafted, and how they added talent in free agency, you’d have to think Minnesota is banking on Odenigbo taking over that starting position.

The Vikings added Anthony Zettel in free agency, who I don’t see being a starter in 2020. The team also drafted D.J. Wonnum in the fourth round.

My guess is this: if the Vikings thought that Odenigbo wasn’t ready, they would have drafted a defensive end earlier or made room to sign a starting-caliber defensive end in free agency.

That didn’t happen, so Odenigbo needs to step up.