Week 4 We apologize for missing the Power Rankings Roundup last week Youth Harrison Smith Jersey , ladies and gentlemen. Between the Minnesota Vikings being on a short week and some other personal commitments, I didn’t have the time to get it knocked out prior to the Rams game, and it seemed a little silly to do it afterwards, so we need to get caught up.I have included the rankings from the week following the game against the Bills. . .which, as you’d expect, saw a lot of significant drops for the purple. . .so we now have the full trend for the team throughout the first four weeks of the regular season. So, without any further ado, let’s get caught up Youth Anthony Barr Jersey , shall we?Associated Press: #14 (Last week: #8)No Vikings-centric commentary from the AP this week.MMQB, Sports Illustrated: #10 (Last week: #6)SB Nation: #12 (Last week: #6)No Vikings-centric commentary from SB Nation this week.Walter Cherepinsky, Walter Football: #15 (Last week: #7)Frank Schwab, Yahoo! Sports: #13 (Last week: #8)USA Today: #17 (Last week: #19)Vinnie Iyer, Sporting News: #13 (Last week: #12)Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk: #17 (Last week: #12)Elliot Harrison, NFL.com: #13 (Last week: #9)ESPN: #13 (Last week: #9)Pete Prisco, CBS Sports: #20 (Last week: #15)Bleacher Report: #8 (Last week: #5)Not surprisingly Youth Kirk Cousins Jersey , the Vikings continue to drop in the rankings. Their average this week is just 13.75 across our 12 sets of rankings. Given that this team started the season with an average ranking of about 4.5, and saw that rise to 3.6 after their victory in Week 1, a tie and a couple of ugly losses will see you take a pretty sudden drop.Here is what the trends look like to this point. As you can imagine, it doesn’t look any better in this format.If you’d like to survey all of the damage, I believe that you can click to embiggen.That’s a look at the Power Rankings for the Minnesota Vikings around the league going into their Week 5 matchup. Hopefully some of these numbers can start to see an upward trend when we do this again next week.Vikings Select 2018-19 Captains The Vikings have announced their six captains for the 2018-19 campaign, which includes several names you might expect.On defense, the Vikings named DE Everson Griffen, NT Linval Joseph http://www.thevikingsfootballauthentic.com/sheldon-richardson-jersey-authentic , and LB Anthony Barr as captains.On offense, they named QB Kirk Cousins, LT Riley Reiff, and TE Kyle Rudolph.It’s not surprising that Kirk Cousins was named a captain as a new addition this year at QB, replacing QB Sam Bradford last season.Both Rudolph and Reiff were captains on offense last season as well.Defensively, there are two new captains - Linval Joseph and Anthony Barr - in addition to Griffen who was a defensive captain last season as well. Certainly all those named as captains are deserving of the honor, but the selections on defense are a little interesting.Anthony Barr, the one remaining key player who the Vikings have yet to extend this year Womens Brett Jones Jersey , being named captain may help reinforce his importance to the team - and hopefully be helpful in getting an extension completed.Barr is also the signal caller on defense.It’s also interesting that no defensive backs were selected to be a captain - Terence Newman was a captain last season.I would have thought Harrison Smith might be a logical choice to have a captain at each level of defense, but the Vikings went with Linval Joseph and Anthony Barr - replacing Brian Robison and Newman.Joseph is certainly a leader along the defensive line - in some ways perhaps more than Griffen - and has been for years.He isn’t as vocal as Griffen, but leads in other ways- including by example - and has earned the respect of all of his teammates judging by how they talk about him.All those selected as captains for the Vikings this season have been to the Pro Bowl at least once, with the exception of Riley Reiff.Congratulations to all the Vikings captains this season - and best wishes in leading the Vikings to a Super season capped by raising the Lombardi trophy come February!