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VIKINGS GAME NOTES compiled by communications

Week 7 | Minnesota Vikings at | October 20, 2019

GAME NOTES • Vikings Captains: T , QB , DE Everson this season Minnesota has recorded a scoring drive over Griffen, TE Kyle Rudolph, DT Linval Joseph 90 yards. The Vikings previously posted drives of 98 yards at the and 92 yards against both Oakland Coin Toss: Vikings called tails and won the toss, choosing • and Chicago. to defer. Lions received. Minnesota did not record a turnover against Detroit, the Minnesota’s 503 yards of total offense against Detroit • • third such game of the season (Week 1 vs. Atlanta, Week marks the first time since 9/28/14 vs. Atlanta that the 3 vs. Oakland). Minnesota’s one on the day Vikings have recorded over 500 yards of total offense in a pushed their season turnover ratio +2. game. The Vikings defense held Detroit to 81 net yards rushing on The Vikings’ 42 points against the Lions are the most this • • Sunday. It’s the fifth time this season Minnesota has held season and the most in a game by Minnesota since scoring an opposing offense to less than 90 net rushing yards in a 49 points versus the New York Giants on 12/27/15. game. Minnesota allowed 0 sacks against Detroit, marking the second • With TE Kyle Rudolph’s score in the fourth quarter, eight time this season the team has done so (Week 3 vs. Oakland). • different Vikings have recorded this season. • In the second quarter, the Vikings capped a 15-play, 97-yard drive with a rushing , marking the fourth time

PLAYER NOTES

• QB Kirk Cousins threw four passing touchdowns in • TE Irv Smith Jr. posted the second-longest catch of his back-to-back weeks (also vs. Philadelphia in Week 6) for career with a 28-yard reception in the first quarter. Smith the second time in his career. It’s the sixth time since went on to record a career high five receptions, finishing entering the league that Cousins has notched four passing the contest with 60 receiving yards. touchdowns in a single game. • With his 142 rushing yards on Sunday, RB • Cousins also became the first Vikings to has more rushing yards through seven games (725) than have back-to-back games with four passing touchdowns the Vikings’ season rushing leader in two of the last three and 300+ passing yards since did so in years. Cook had 615 total rushing yards to lead the team in Weeks 5-6 of the 2004 season. Over his last three games, 2018, while Jerick McKinnon rushed for a team-leading 539 the Michigan native has 976 yards, 10 touchdowns and one yards in 2016. interception. • Through 22 career games Cook has eclipsed 100 rushing • WR scored his seventh total touchdown (six yards seven times. In Vikings history, only receiving, one rushing) of the season in the first quarter recorded more 100-plus yard rushing games through the against Detroit, catching a 25-yard touchdown strike from first 22 games of his career, doing so 11 times. Cousins. • With his two rushing touchdowns at Detroit, Cook recorded • TE Kyle Rudolph caught a season-high five receptions for his third-career game with two or more scores. He has 58 yards and his first touchdown of the season on Sunday. eight rushing touchdowns on the season. • For the second straight week, WR recorded • DE tracked down Lions QB Matthew 100-plus yards in a game, catching seven passes for 142 Stafford for the Vikings first sack of the day, a loss of yards. It’s the 14th 100-yard game of his career. seven yards, in the third quarter. Hunter is up to 7.0 sacks on the season. • Rookie WR caught his first-career touchdown, a one-yard reception from Cousins, to cap an eight-play, 61- • DE Everson Griffen tallied the team’s second sack of the yard drive in the second quarter. Johnson finished the day game in the fourth quarter, dropping Stafford for a loss of with four receptions for 40 yards and one score. five yards. Griffen has 4.0 sacks on the season. • Cousins connected with FB C.J. Ham in the third quarter for • CB intercepted Stafford in the fourth quarter a five-yard score. It was the first receiving touchdown of at the MIN 20, recording his first interception of the season Ham’s career and the second overall. His first career score and seventh of his career. Waynes’ last interception came came on a one-yard rush at Pittsburgh on 9/17/17. at the New York Jets on 10/21/18. • Ham posted a career-long rush of nine yards on the Vikings • RB posted the team’s longest kick return third-down conversion in the fourth quarter. The nine yards of the season going 38 yards on his second return of the also stand as Ham’s career-high for rushing yards in a game. The 38-yard return was the second-longest of his game. career, and his longest since returning a kickoff 104 yards at Green Bay in 2015 while with Detroit.