Dalvin Cook becomes first Viking to score four times since Ahmad Rashad

Posted by Mike Florio on November 1, 2020, 5:49 PM EST
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Surprisingly, receiver Randy Moss never scored four touchdowns in one game for the Vikings. On Sunday, running back Dalvin Cook did.

It had been so long since it had happened for Minnesota that, the last time it occurred, Moss was only two years old.

It last happened on September 2, 1979. In a game that also ended with the Vikings winning 28-22, receiver Ahmad Rashad scored four times against the 49ers.

Cook is actually the third Vikings player to do it. On a very snowy Saturday afternoon in Buffalo in December 1975, running back Chuck Foreman scored four touchowns for the Vikings against the Bills.

Cook spoke to PFT after the game. We’ll have a post or two coming up with what he had to say.

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16 responses to “Dalvin Cook becomes first Viking to score four times since Ahmad Rashad”

  3. Outside of one WR that has a single 1,000 yard season in his 6+ year career… thank goodness GB doesn’t have any legitimate WR’s on their team or GB could have won. Instead St. Brown was dropping 3rd down conversions and TD’ and none of them were able to get open against the 6th string CB’s MN had to sign this week just to field a roster. Thankfully GB has a backup turnover machine QB and a 3rd string RB instead of a player like Tee Higgins or Chase Claypool.

    Unfortunately, it looks like if they are able to get past the Bears and limp into the playoffs they are going to lose in the first round in Rodgers last year with the Packers and hit the rebuild button with delicate Devante and little else on that offense.

  6. Don’t worry Packer fans, you’ll get a chance to pay Aaron Jones $12 million per year this offseason. Or you can let him walk. Either way.

  10. speicher145 says:
    November 1, 2020 at 7:12 pm
    Leading the Vikings to the highlight of their entire season!
    ———————

    Still planning your SuperBowl trip after being exposed by a 1 win team?

  11. I remember that game. Also remember beating GB in 1979, Rashad with an overtime 50 yard TD.
    How the heck did we beat Mr Rodgers with rookie and backup CB’s? We were down to 2 corners… and Aaron couldn’t do it.

  13. Vikings fan here, but to the guy who said the Packers have no wide receivers, Davonte Adam’s was a one man Vikings slayer the first time we met this year and we obviously game planned for him and he still had a great game. I am thankful they don’t have another of his caliber and thankful we won. We don’t need to throw stones. Winning is enough. It was a dramatic and competitive game. Loved it.

  14. Congrats to Minnesota and for taking my advice to go to the 3×5 play card!
    1. Hand off Left
    2. Hand off Right
    3. Hand of Middle
    4. Screen play (left or right)

    The less Kirk throws the better.

  15. ragnarthegreat says:
    November 2, 2020 at 8:28 am
    Vikings fan here, but to the guy who said the Packers have no wide receivers, Davonte Adam’s was a one man Vikings slayer the first time we met this year and we obviously game planned for him and he still had a great game. I am thankful they don’t have another of his caliber and thankful we won. We don’t need to throw stones. Winning is enough. It was a dramatic and competitive game. Loved it.
    —————-

    In all fairness… I said they had no WR’s outside of Adam’s and I also said “thank goodness” they don’t have another like him or they probably would have won.

  16. Fun facts in the 79 Vikings Niners game:
    1. Joe Montana was the Niners holder
    2. Rashad got creamed at the goal line as time expired, fumbled, and Sammy White fell on it for the TD. Refs ruled it a touchdown by Rashad, which it clearly wasn’t.
    3. NFL refs making inexplicable calls at least since 1979
    4. Start of the Tommy Kramer era for the Vikings

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