Eric Wilson

Minnesota Vikings

Pos LB

Updated October 8, 2026

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Model Score

78.7 MODEL

2024

72.4

2025

81.1

2026

78.7

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

Tier 8 (#75) Packers to tier 2 (#13) Vikings in one year is a 62-spot jump that puts Wilson in the rarest late-career outlier-positive class at the LB position. The Cincinnati AAC UDFA origin plus the homecoming to Minnesota under Brian Flores's defensive scheme appears to be the catalyst. The 2026 question is whether Wilson holds tier 4 or better across a full second Vikings season or whether the 2025 finish was a one-year context spike.

Wilson came out of Cincinnati as a 2017 undrafted free agent signed by the Minnesota Vikings and has bounced through the Vikings, Eagles, Texans, Packers, and back to Minnesota across nine NFL seasons. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#75) in 2024 with the Packers to tier 2 (#13) breakout in 2025 with Minnesota, a 62-spot one-year jump.

Strengths

62-spot year-over-year jump from tier 8 (#75) Packers to tier 2 (#13) Vikings as a 2017 UDFA puts him in the rarest outlier-positive class.
Cincinnati AAC UDFA origin plus the multi-team experience gives him real journeyman veteran value.

Concerns

Single tier 2 finish without prior top-30 STTM history puts the 2025 production on a small sample with significant downside risk.
Minnesota's broader defensive identity around Brian Flores's exotic scheme puts continued Wilson ceiling partly scheme-dependent.

What to watch: Whether Wilson holds tier 4 or better across the full 2026 Vikings season, the threshold for confirming the 2025 breakout was structural.