VIKINGS GAME NOTES compiled by communications and scott grams

Week 6 | Philadelphia Eagles at Minnesota Vikings | October 13, 2019

GAME NOTES

• Vikings Captains: T Riley Reiff, QB , DE Everson • The Vikings offense has scored touchdowns on its opening Griffen, TE Kyle Rudolph, DT Linval Joseph possession in all three home games (3-0) thus far in 2019. • Honorary Captain: Casey O’Brien • Sunday marks the third time this season the Vikings have had three offensive touchdowns in the first half (also Week • Coin Toss: Philadelphia selected tails and won the toss, 1 vs. Atlanta and Week 3 vs. Oakland). choosing to defer to the second half. Minnesota defended the West Goal. • The Vikings 38 points in Sunday’s game against the Eagles is the team’s most since scoring 41 points against Miami in • The Vikings defense forced a three-and-out on the Week 15 of the 2018 season. Eagles first possession of the game. Entering Sunday’s game, Minnesota had forced three-and-outs on 23.3% of • After posting 122 rushing yards against Philadelphia, opponent drives since 2014, the fourth-best mark in the Minnesota has rushed for 100 yards or more in seven of the NFL. nine games that offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski has called plays in, dating back to last season.

PLAYER NOTES • With his three receptions in the game, TE Kyle Rudolph to record four receiving touchdowns in a single game, doing passed Sammy White for seventh in team history in so vs. San Francisco on 9/2/1979. catches with 395. White had 393 receptions for his career. • Diggs caught a 62-yard touchdown pass from Cousins, • QB Kirk Cousins finished the game by going 22-of-29 for the second-longest touchdown reception of his career, 333 yards, four touchdowns, one and a 138.4 and a 51-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter. The passer rating, becoming the first quarterback in franchise 62-yarder marked Minnesota’s longest passing play of the history to have two consecutive games with 300 passing year. For his career, Diggs has seven scoring receptions of yards and a passer rating of 138.4 or higher. 40 yards or more. • Cousins’ four passing touchdowns on Sunday matched • Diggs is the first Viking since Randy Moss (10/1/2000 at a career high. He has thrown four touchdowns in four Detroit) to record two 50-plus yard touchdown receptions previous games, most recently at Green Bay on 9/16/18. in a single game. • Cousins is the first quarterback to throw two passes of 50- • On the Vikings opening drive of the game, Cousins plus yards in a game since Brett Farve did so vs. Baltimore found WR for a six-yard touchdown pass, on October 18, 2009. completing a 13-play, 75-yard series. It was Thielen’s sixth touchdown (five receiving, one rushing) of the season. • Cousins also tied a Vikings franchise record with his third consecutive game with a completion percentage of 75.0 • K Dan Bailey made a 39-yard field goal to cap a nine-play, or higher (also Tavaris Jackson in 2007 and Rick Gannon in 35-yard drive in the first quarter. Bailey has made eight 1992). field goals in a row, dating back to Week 2 at Green Bay. He finished the day with one field goal and five PATs. • DE notched a five-yard sack of Eagles QB Carson Wentz with 7:38 left in the fourth quarter, giving • To close the second quarter, DE Everson Griffenrecorded him 6.0 sacks for the season and 46.0 sacks for his career. his second career interception off the arm of Philadelphia With the stop, Hunter also set the record for the most kicker Jake Elliott on a fake field goal attempt. sacks by an NFL player prior to turning 25 years old (since LB and CB Mackensie Alexander combined sacks became an official stat in 1982). • to sack Wentz on third down in the fourth quarter for the • WR Stefon Diggs became the first Viking since Marcus Vikings first sack of the game, a nine-yard loss. It was the Robinson (11/27/2005 vs. Cleveland) to record three first half-sack sack of the season for both Kendricks and receiving scores in a single game. Diggs’ three scores also Alexander. marked a new career high, while his 167 receiving yards Alexander also grabbed his first interception of the were the third-highest single game total of his career. He • season and second of his career, picking off Wentz at the has 13 career games of 100 receiving yards or more. Philadelphia 31 with 5:42 remaining in the fourth quarter. Diggs’ three touchdown day marks the 15th time in • LB Cameron Smith saw his first-career game action. franchise history a player has recorded three receiving • scores in a single game. Ahmad Rashad is the only Viking • P played in his 150th career game.