EAGAN, Minn. — While watching film this week, Minnesota Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell highlighted a play where Andrew Van Ginkel was knocked to the ground by a blindside hit from Detroit's Kalif Raymond.

The Lions' receiver was being motioned toward the ball when he collided with the Vikings' edge rusher just after the ball was snapped. Not giving up on the play, Van Ginkel alertly located Detroit running back Jahmyr Gibbs, who hauled in a screen pass, and pulled him down for a loss of yardage.

"It's not only the instinctiveness of plays like that really don't jump out when he makes the play — I mean, obviously, we all see the intercepting a screen for a touchdown, or picking off a hot throw in a zero — but it's all of those little ones that he does," said O'Connell.

Van Ginkel made hea

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