One Minnesota Vikings player makes ESPN's All-Pro Team for 2025

The Minnesota Vikings have had some ups and downs as a team. Individually, players who were expected to be at the top of their game were not as much as they had hoped in 2025, while others emerged through the chaos, one has seemingly stood above the rest.

ESPN's Bill Barnwell compiled his All-Pro team for the World Wide Leader in Sports. In doing so, he named just one Vikings player to his team: Will Reichard. The Vikings kicker has all the respect in the world from Minnesota sports fans, but seeing him mentioned on a national level is not done enough based on the season he had.

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He writes, "Brandon Aubrey gets deserved plaudits as the league's best kicker on a weekly basis, but Reichard has actually been slightly better this season per advanced metrics. He has attempted eight fewer field goals than Aubrey, but Reichard has gone 30-for-32, whereas Aubrey is 35-for-40. Even with the slightly reduced volume, Reichard has made 6.7 more field goals than expected (per NGS), compared with 6.5 for Aubrey, as his average field goal make has been from a yard further out. Reichard has also been perfect on extra points. Vikings fans endured about a decade of frustrating kickers, but Reichard has broken that trend."

Reichard was drafted by the Vikings in the sixth round of the 2024 NFL Draft. Anytime a kicker is drafted instead of signed as a UDFA, there is some added pressure. For Reichard, however, he has not only proven to be worthy of that pick but one of the best in recent memory for the franchise.

This article originally appeared on Vikings Wire: One Vikings player makes ESPN's All-Pro Team for 2025