The Minnesota Vikings defense was stellar in its regular-season debut against the Green Bay Packers in Week 1.
Since then, the Vikings have shown ups and downs defensively over the past month, despite consistently holding opponents to under 25 points in every game so far.
But on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins, Minnesota had a strong performance on that side of the ball, forcing three turnovers and recording a season-high six sacks en route to a 24-16 victory.
After the game, Vikings Head Coach Kevin O’Connell gave game balls to every member of his team’s defense.
Joe Nelson of Bring Me The Sports looked at Minnesota’s grades from Pro Football Focus. Leading the way for the Vikings defensively were outside linebackers Za’Darius Smith and Danielle Hunter with PFF grades of 92.0 and 90.7, respectively.
Smith finished the game with a whopping 11 pressures, including two sacks, two QB hits and seven QB hurries.
Hunter had his best game of the season and was credited by PFF with six pressures, including a sack, two hits and three hurries.
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