Pro Football Focus does not like the Vikings defensive line heading into 2024, but it respects the other side of the football. Ranking all 32 offensive lines in football, PFF says Minnesota has the 13th-best offensive line in the NFL.
Although left tackle Christian Darrisaw was not able to replicate his breakout 2022 campaign, he still finished 2023 as the third-highest-graded offensive tackle in pass protection despite battling injuries.
While the interior trio of Dalton Risner, Garrett Bradbury and Ed Ingram is average at best, the offensive tackle duo of Darrisaw and Brian O’Neill makes the Vikings’ line an above-average unit.
Darrisaw and O’Neill make up one of the best young duos at tackle. Darrisaw will eventually sign an extension with Minnesota that will make him one of the highest-paid offensive linemen in the game. The concern is the guard spot.
The Vikings re-signed Dalton Risner, but the Minnesota brass has full confidence in unproven left guard Blake Brandel. It sounds like he will be given all the chances to start there, and Risner will compete with Ed Ingram at right guard.
Either way, Minnesota can potentially have a top-10 offensive line this season.