Teddy Bridgewater led all rookie QBs last season in wins (6), completion percentage (64.4), passing yards per game in starts (230.8), and passer rating (85.3). While his mid-80s passer rating may seem unspectacular, it is actually the 5th-highest passer rating posted by any rookie QB to start 8 games since 1990. Only Robert Griffin III (102.4), Russell Wilson (100.0), Ben Roethlisberger (98.1), and Matt Ryan (87.7) posted higher marks as rookies.

In 2012, Adrian Peterson not only threatened Eric Dickerson's NFL record for rushing yards in a season; he did so with a nearly unprecedented average of 6.0 yards per carry. Only five other players have led the NFL in rushing while averaging 6.0 or more yards per carry: Barry Sanders (6.1 yds/carry in 1997), O.J. Simpson (6.0 yds/carry in 1973), Jim Brown (6.4 yds/carry in 1963), Joe Perry (6.1 yds/carry in 1954) and Beattie Feathers (8.4 yds/carry in 1934). Peterson and Feathers are the only players on that list not currently enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

Adrian Peterson had 10+ rushing touchdowns in each of his first seven NFL seasons prior to 2014, when he missed 15 games. Peterson and LaDainian Tomlinson (9 straight seasons) are the only players to record 10+ rushing TD in at least 7 seasons to start their career. Hall of Fame running backs Frank Gifford, John Henry Johnson, Ollie Matson, Hugh McElhenny, Marion Motley, Charley Trippi and Doak Walker never had a single season with 10+ rushing TD.

Since drafting Peterson in 2007, the Vikings have finished in the Top 10 in rushing yards per game 6 times in his 8 seasons. In that same span, they have finished in the Top 20 in passing yards per game just once (8th in 2009).

On Thanksgiving Day of 1998, Randy Moss had a game for the ages. He had 3 receptions for 163 yards, and they all went for TD in the Vikings 46-36 win at Dallas. There have been 17 instances since 1960 in which a player had 3 receptions that all went for TD. However, Moss's 163 receiving yards are the most for any of the 17 games this happened. No player has ever had 4 receptions, all going for TD in the same game.

Hall of Famer John Randle leads all defensive tackles with 137.5 career sacks, 41 more than second-place DT Warren Sapp. Randle had 1.5 or more sacks in 35 career

Fran Tarkenton retired as the NFL's all-time leading passer in 1978. His 47,003 yards were almost 7,000 more yards than Johnny Unitas, who ranked second on the list at that time. Tarkenton still ranks 8th all-time on the passing list and his retirement in 1978 came before any of the other quarterbacks in the top 10 (Favre, P. Manning, Marino, Brees, Brady, Elway, Moon, Testaverde, and Bledsoe) entered the league.

Cris Carter retired in 2002 after 16 seasons in the NFL. At the time of his retirement, only Jerry Rice had more career receptions and receiving touchdowns than Carter. Also impressive was Carter's reliability - he played a full 16-game season in 13 of his 16 years in the NFL, missing only 22 games in his career. Among Hall of Fame wide receivers, only Jerry Rice (303), Tim Brown (255), and Charlie Joiner (239) played more games than Carter (234), though Andre Reed matched his total (234).