It didn’t seem like that long ago that the Minnesota Vikings were ignoring analytics. Head Coach Mike Zimmer even stated publicly on numerous occasions that sites like Pro Football Focus are much less important to a franchise than things like the ‘eye test’.
Perhaps the team has seen the value that analytics can add to their team. Today, it was announced that the Vikings would be adding a Director of Analytics. This title was added on to the duties of scout Scott Kuhn, who has been with the organization for a decade now and already did work on analytics in the past.