Which former members of the Minnesota Vikings have the best chance to end the upcoming 2022 season as part of a Super Bowl winner?
With there now only a few weeks left until the Minnesota Vikings begin their 2022 training camp, their current odds to win the Super Bowl sit at +4000 according to WynnBET.
For those that aren’t as familiar with betting odds, the people setting the odds currently believe the Vikings have a 2.44 percent chance to win the 2022 Super Bowl.
Minnesota certainly doesn’t have the highest Super Bowl odds in the NFL this year, but they don’t have the lowest either. However, there are a number of former Vikings players that have a better chance than their old team to win a ring next season.
Who are some of these former members of Minnesota’s roster that could help their current team win a Super Bowl during the 2022 campaign?
Player No. 1
Stormer Norton – OT (Los Angeles Chargers)
Chargers 2022 Super Bowl Odds (according to WynnBET): +1600
Before he signed with Los Angeles in 2020, the last NFL team Storm Norton suited up for was the Vikings in 2019. With the Chargers last season, Norton appeared in all 17 of their games, and he was a starter in 15 of them.
If he remains a starter on Los Angeles’ offensive line, he’ll get to continue blocking for one of the best young quarterbacks in the league in Justin Herbert. With Herbert leading the way, some believe the Chargers can go on a run in 2022 similar to what Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals were able to do last season.
Los Angeles still has multiple hurdles to overcome in 2022, but Norton certainly has one of the best chances among former Vikings players to win a Super Bowl ring next season.
Stefon Diggs – WR (Buffalo Bills)
Bills 2022 Super Bowl Odds: +700
Speaking of the best chances to win a Super Bowl next season, former Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs and the Bills are at the top of the list.
Buffalo is heading into the 2022 campaign as one of the favorites to end the season with a Vince Lombardi trophy and Diggs is a big reason why.
Since Minnesota traded him to the Bills during the 2020 offseason, he has taken his game to an extremely high level. After earning his first-career First-Team All-Pro selection in 2020, Diggs followed that up by catching 103 passes for 1,225 yards and 10 touchdowns last season with Buffalo.
His relationship with Bills quarterback Josh Allen has been flourishing ever since the former Minnesota draft pick arrived. There’s no reason to believe that the connection between Allen and Diggs won’t continue to produce success for Buffalo in 2022.
Will they find a way to finally get over the hump though next season and deliver the Bills their first-ever Super Bowl victory?
Anthony Harris – S (Philadelphia Eagles)
Eagles 2022 Super Bowl Odds: +2500
After spending the first six years of his NFL career with the Vikings, safety Anthony Harris took on a new challenge last season as a member of the Eagles.
Harris wound up having a pretty solid performance in his first year with Philadelphia. In 14 games, he accumulated 72 tackles, three pass breakups, and one interception.
Of all the players on this list, Harris might have the lowest chance to win a Super Bowl as the Eagles are not expected to be one of the favorites to represent the NFC in the league’s final game of the 2022 season.
Philadelphia does have the talent to make a surprise run this year though, especially after acquiring wide receiver A.J. Brown in a trade with the Tennessee Titans. Will the 2022 campaign end with Harris and the Eagles celebrating their second Super Bowl win in the last five seasons?
Jerick McKinnon – RB (Chiefs)
Chiefs 2022 Super Bowl Odds: +1000
It was starting to seem like Jerick McKinnon might not play during the 2022 season, as he remained unemployed until the Chiefs recently decided to re-sign him.
So McKinnon is sticking with a Kansas City team that is still trying to recapture the magic that resulted in them winning the Super Bowl back in 2019.
The Chiefs will be attempting to make it to the AFC Championship for the fifth-straight season in 2022 and they’ll have to do it without wide receiver Tyreek Hill. With Hill no longer a part of the offense, could McKinnon have a bigger role with Kansas City this year?
The former Vikings running back appeared in 13 games with the Chiefs last season, but he only produced 169 yards and one touchdown. So McKinnon is a bit of a roster-bubble player right now, but if he makes it past final cuts, he could potentially be a part of a Kansas City team that wins their second Super Bowl under head coach Andy Reid.
Daniel Carlson – K (Las Vegas Raiders)
Raiders 2022 Super Bowl Odds: +4000
Moving on from Daniel Carlson after just two games in 2018 has proven to be one of the worst decisions the Vikings made during the Mike Zimmer era. It seemed like the right choice at the time, but Minnesota probably should have been a little more patient with a kicker who they invested a fifth-round draft pick in.
Shortly after the Vikings showed Carlson the door in 2018, he was picked up by the Raiders. All he’s done in the last four years with Las Vegas is develop into one of the best kickers in the NFL and earn a lucrative contract extension from his current team.
Now, are Carlson’s excellent kicking skills going to be what leads Las Vegas to a Super Bowl win next season? Probably not, but it’s hard to determine how successful the Raiders will even be in 2022 as they will be led by new head coach Josh McDaniels.
The last time we saw McDaniels as a head coach, he was running the Denver Broncos into the ground and getting fired before the 2010 campaign even came to a close.
Carlson and the rest of his Las Vegas teammates will be hoping that McDaniels learned what not to do as a head coach from his tenure with the Broncos.
Jayron Kearse – S (Dallas Cowboys)
Cowboys 2022 Super Bowl Odds: +1600
Like Stefon Diggs and Daniel Carlson, Jayron Kearse is someone who has flourished since departing from the Vikings in 2020.
Kearse had a bumpy season with the Detroit Lions in his first year away from Minnesota. But he really came into his own with the Cowboys last season as he finished with 101 tackles (nine for a loss), 10 pass breakups, and two interceptions in 16 games.
In 2022, Kearse is back with Dallas, and he’ll be looking to prove to everyone that last season wasn’t a fluke. The Cowboys will need all the help they can get from the former Minnesota safety as they look to make the playoffs in back-to-back years for the first time since 2007.
Dallas has plenty of talent on their roster to compete with some of the best teams in the NFL. But do Kearse and the rest of his Cowboys teammates have what it takes to win their first Super Bowl since 1995?