Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor
Established 1998 · 28 members inducted
The Vikings created the Ring of Honor in 1998 to recognise the players, coaches and staff who shaped the franchise. Quarterback Fran Tarkenton was the first name added, on 9 September 1998. Twenty-eight people have been inducted since. What follows is the register, in the order they went up.
- 1998Ring established
- TarkentonFirst inductee
- 28Members inducted
- 14Also in the Hall of Fame
The register, in induction order
Twenty-eight record cards, oldest first. The numeral on each card is the year of the induction ceremony; the card number is that person's place in the order of induction. Six people went up in 1998, the year the Ring was created.
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1998Inducted
No. 01
Fran Tarkenton
Quarterback
With the Vikings: 1961–1966, 1972–1978
Ceremony: September 9, 1998Pro Football Hall of Fame
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1998Inducted
No. 02
Alan Page
Defensive Tackle
With the Vikings: 1967–1978
Ceremony: September 20, 1998Pro Football Hall of Fame
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1998Inducted
No. 03
Jim Finks
General Manager
With the Vikings: 1964–1973
Ceremony: October 18, 1998Pro Football Hall of Fame
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1998Inducted
No. 04
Bud Grant
Head Coach
With the Vikings: 1967–1983, 1985
Ceremony: November 8, 1998Pro Football Hall of Fame
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1998Inducted
No. 05
Paul Krause
Safety
With the Vikings: 1968–1979
Ceremony: November 15, 1998Pro Football Hall of Fame
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1998Inducted
No. 06
Fred Zamberletti
Trainer and Medical Adviser
With the Vikings: With the Vikings from 1961
Ceremony: December 20, 1998 -
1999Inducted
No. 07
Jim Marshall
Defensive End
With the Vikings: 1961–1979
Ceremony: November 28, 1999 -
2001Inducted
No. 08
Ron Yary
Offensive Tackle
With the Vikings: 1968–1981
Ceremony: September 9, 2001Pro Football Hall of Fame
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2001Inducted
No. 09
Korey Stringer
Offensive Tackle
With the Vikings: 1995–2000
Ceremony: November 19, 2001 -
2001Inducted
No. 10
Mick Tingelhoff
Center
With the Vikings: 1962–1978
Ceremony: November 25, 2001Pro Football Hall of Fame
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2002Inducted
No. 11
Carl Eller
Defensive End
With the Vikings: 1964–1978
Ceremony: November 10, 2002Pro Football Hall of Fame
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2003Inducted
No. 12
Cris Carter
Wide Receiver
With the Vikings: 1990–2001
Ceremony: September 14, 2003Pro Football Hall of Fame
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2004Inducted
No. 13
Bill Brown
Running Back
With the Vikings: 1962–1974
Ceremony: September 26, 2004 -
2005Inducted
No. 14
Jerry Burns
Head Coach
With the Vikings: 1986–1991
Ceremony: November 6, 2005 -
2006Inducted
No. 15
Randall McDaniel
Guard
With the Vikings: 1988–1999
Ceremony: December 17, 2006Pro Football Hall of Fame
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2007Inducted
No. 16
Chuck Foreman
Running Back
With the Vikings: 1973–1979
Ceremony: September 30, 2007 -
2008Inducted
No. 17
John Randle
Defensive Tackle
With the Vikings: 1990–2000
Ceremony: November 30, 2008Pro Football Hall of Fame
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2009Inducted
No. 18
Scott Studwell
Linebacker
With the Vikings: 1977–1990
Ceremony: November 29, 2009 -
2011Inducted
No. 19
Chris Doleman
Defensive End
With the Vikings: 1985–1993, 1999
Ceremony: October 23, 2011Pro Football Hall of Fame
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2012Inducted
No. 20
Matt Blair
Linebacker
With the Vikings: 1974–1985
Ceremony: October 25, 2012 -
2013Inducted
No. 21
Joey Browner
Safety
With the Vikings: 1983–1991
Ceremony: October 27, 2013 -
2017Inducted
No. 22
Randy Moss
Wide Receiver
With the Vikings: 1998–2004, 2010
Ceremony: September 11, 2017Pro Football Hall of Fame
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2021Inducted
No. 26
Kevin Williams
Defensive Tackle
With the Vikings: 2003–2013
Ceremony: October 3, 2021 -
2022Inducted
No. 27
Jared Allen
Defensive End
With the Vikings: 2008–2013
Ceremony: October 30, 2022Pro Football Hall of Fame
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2024Inducted
No. 28
Bobby Bryant
Cornerback
With the Vikings: 1967–1980
Ceremony: September 22, 2024
Announced, not yet inducted
One name has been announced but has not yet gone up. It is kept separate from the register above so the count of 28 stays accurate.
Scheduled · 29th member
Adrian Peterson
Running Back · 2007–2016
The Vikings announced on 28 July 2026 that Peterson will enter the Ring of Honor as its 29th member during Minnesota's Monday Night Football game against the Buffalo Bills on 9 November 2026. As of the date this page was published, the ceremony has not taken place.
The Ring of Honor is not the Hall of Fame
These are two separate honours and it is easy to run them together. The Ring of Honor is the Vikings' own award, decided by the club, and it recognises service to this franchise. The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton is a league-wide institution with its own selection committee, and a place there is not in the Vikings' gift.
The two overlap, but not neatly. Fourteen of the twenty-eight Ring of Honor members are also enshrined in Canton, and those cards carry a gold Hall of Fame marker above. The other fourteen are not, which is the point of the Ring: it exists to honour people whose contribution to Minnesota football does not depend on a national vote.
It runs the other way too. Several people in the Pro Football Hall of Fame played for the Vikings at some stage of their careers without being inducted into the Ring of Honor, because the Ring is about a career made here.
A note on what this page does not say
This page lists each member's role, their years with the Vikings and the date of their induction ceremony. It deliberately does not carry biographical detail we have not checked person by person. Where a member has a profile on this site, their name links to it.
Sources and how this list was checked
This register shows the entries we could verify as of 12 September 2026. The membership list was taken from the Vikings' own Ring of Honor page and cross-checked against a second, dated list; every induction year agreed across both. The ordering was then checked a third way, against the club's own statements that Steve Jordan was the 25th member, Jared Allen the 27th and Bobby Bryant the 28th — each of which matches the position that name holds in the chronological order above.
Hall of Fame markers were checked individually against the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Minnesota Vikings page rather than assumed from the Ring of Honor list.
- vikings.com — Vikings Legends: Ring of Honor (membership list)
- vikings.com — Bobby Bryant, 2024 Ring of Honor inductee (28th member)
- vikings.com — Jared Allen, 2022 Ring of Honor inductee (27th member, and the prior members in order)
- vikings.com — Adrian Peterson to be inducted in 2026 (29th member, scheduled)
- profootballhof.com — Minnesota Vikings Hall of Famers (Hall of Fame markers)
- Wikipedia — Minnesota Vikings, Ring of Honor (dated ceremony table, used only where it agreed with the above)
If you spot an error in a name, a year or a tenure, please tell us and we will correct it. This is an independent fan site and has no access to club records.