A look at Minnesota Vikings’ 2021 opponents

With the Minnesota Vikings’ 2020 season mercifully coming to an end after Week 17, we’re moving on to the NFL draft — and the 2021 campaign.

It’s never too early to look ahead to next fall.

While the Vikings official 2021 schedule has yet to be released, we do know their opponents for next season based on 2020 results.

The big change for next season is the NFL is expected to add a 17th regular season game.

As usual, six of the regular season clashes will be against the Vikings’ divisional foes – Chicago, Detroit and Green Bay.

Minnesota and the rest of the NFC North division will battle every team in the NFC West — Arizona, the Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco and Seattle.

For the conference games determined by the 2020 standings, the Vikings will take on Dallas and Carolina – two teams which also finished third in their respective divisions.

For the 2021 interconference games, the NFC North will battle the entire AFC North division. That means games against Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

Minnesota will also line up against the Los Angeles Chargers for its 17th game, a matchup determined by the 2020 standings as L.A. finished third in AFC West.

2021 Minnesota Vikings opponents