5 Chargers-Vikings matchup that will determine the Week 3 outcome
By Sean Basile
(2) Chargers RBs vs. Vikings run defense
Nobody is really talking about the fact that last week the Chargers faced one of, if not the best run-defending team in football in the last several years in Tennessee.
Last year, the Titans were #1 in rushing yards per game allowed (76.9) and this year they're already top three allowing just 65 RYPG.
Jeffery Simmons, Denico Autry, Teair Tart, and Azeez Al-Shaair is one of the best fronts the Chargers are going to see all year. Now they go up against a Vikings front of Harrison Phillips, Dean Lowry, Jonathan Bullard, and Jordan Hicks that's allowing 116 rushing yards per game through two weeks this season.
Austin Ekeler may still be out, but I'd have to imagine Kellen Moore drawing up these run schemes is going to be able to replicate something similar to what we saw in Week 1 against the Dolphins in the run department. This could be....and really should be another big day for Joshua Kelley.