It went generally unnoticed last week, but Chuck Foreman was among 183 players nominated for the Pro Football Hall of Fame 2025 Seniors category.

Foreman played seven seasons for the Vikings (1973-1979) and is not in the established Pro Football Hall of Fame. Former Viking Adrian Peterson likely will be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, perhaps in his first year of eligibility in 2027.

But the Vikings’ greatest running back of all time isn’t Peterson. It’s Foreman.

Although Peterson was a tremendous runner, accumulating 11,747 rushing yards during a 10-season Vikings career, he was prone to fumbles, was not a good receiver and was an inept blocker.

Foreman was a great runner and receiver, and the years when he was dominant, the Vikings went to three Super Bowls (1973, 1974, 1976 seasons). With Peterson, the Vikings had no Super Bowl appearances.

Foreman, who rushed for 5,950 yards with 53 touchdowns, also had 350 receptions for 3,156 yards and 23 TDs. And those were in 14-game seasons, not 16 or 17. He led the NFL in receptions in 1975 and TD catches in 1974-75 as a hybrid running back.

A five-time Pro Bowl player, Foreman should also be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

As for his nomination in the senior category, Foreman, 73, said “it’s a privilege, special to be on the list.”

Other former Vikings nominated: Jim Marshall, Ed White, Joey Browner and Herschel Walker.

>> As for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, 2025 should finally be the class when former Viking Jared Allen is elected.

By the way, Allen, 42, this weekend was to fly from his home in Nashville to headline the sold-out Morrie Miller Athletic Foundation banquet.

>> The only other game during Kevin O’Connell’s three seasons as Vikings coach that the Vikings played as well as they did in the 28-6 victory at the Giants last Sunday was two years ago when they beat the Packers 23-7 in the season-opener in Minneapolis.

What we don’t know yet is how much of the victory over the Giants was due to a very good defense or a bad Giants’ offense.

But fans will find out Sunday afternoon when the NFC’s best team, the 49ers, play the Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium.

The Vikings will need to play a perfect game to win. There’s a reason San Francisco is a strong Super Bowl contender — the 49ers are loaded everywhere, on offense, on defense and everywhere else.

>> The question with Vikings QB Sam Darnold, 27, has never been physical talent but interceptions. He has a strong arm and is more mobile than ex-Viking Kirk Cousins, 36, who considering his new $180 million contract, embarrassed himself and the Falcons in their 18-10 season-opening loss to the Steelers.

Against the Giants, Darnold had one interception, but during his seven-year NFL career, he’s thrown 57 interceptions. In two college seasons at Southern California, Darnold threw 22 interceptions.

>> The only other QB rumored as a free agent prospect before the Vikings signed Darnold was Jameis Winston, who this season ended with a $4 million, one-year deal with the Browns. Darnold accepted a $10 million, one-year contract. The Broncos were another possibility for Darnold.

>> It’s not immutable that Darnold is merely a one-year bridge for J.J. McCarthy.

>> Last year, the Vikings defense blitzed a lot. The team did not blitz much against the Giants. That’s because this year the defense has better personnel and depth and, at least against the Giants, didn’t have to gamble with blitz.

>> No doubt, the Vikings are hoping that QB Jordan Love doesn’t recover from his knee injury in time for their matchup in two weeks in Green Bay.

>> Vikings running back Aaron Jones has demonstrated he’s a major upgrade from Alexander Mattison, now No. 2 with the Raiders. The Vikings are rotating Jones with Ty Chandler so as to not wear out Jones, who is 29.

>> If next month the feeble Panthers continue to get blown out, there might be a team willing to take ex-Viking Adam Thielen, 34, if there’s a wide receiver injury. It’s unlikely that would be the Vikings because currently they have only three draft picks for 2025.

>> The Vikings will be the home team for their Oct. 6 game against the Jets in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England. Regarding international games, as part of the Vikings stadium lease, the team can only give up a home game every five years.

>> Duane Benson, who starred at linebacker for Hamline University in the mid-1960s before a 10-year NFL career, had his Pipers No. 50 jersey retired posthumously the other day.

>> In his first two games for Rutgers, ex-Gophers QB Athan Kaliakmanis has completed 29 of 47 passes for 377 yards and six TDs.

>> Matthew Hurt, 24, the former Minnesota Mr. Basketball at Rochester John Marshall, next week begins his season for South East Melbourne in Australia.

>> Daniel Oturu, 24, the former Gopher from Cretin-Derham Hall, is playing for Anadolu Efes in Turkey.

>> The Brophy Prep high school football team in Phoenix, Ariz., has three wide receivers whose fathers — Larry Fitzgerald Jr. of Minneapolis, Donovan McNabb and Darren Sharper — played in the NFL.

>> Among the 346 members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, 75 are living, and among those, eight are former Twins — Paul Molitor, Dave Winfield, Bert Blyleven, Jim Kaat, Rod Carew, Tony Oliva, Jack Morris and Joe Mauer.

>> A local sports memorabilia collector the other day bought Hall of Fame former Twins Harmon Killebrew’s final career home run, No. 573, with his autograph, for $55.

>> Augsburg grad Devean George, 47, who spent 11 years in the NBA and now is a real estate developer in Minneapolis, remains the only Division III player ever selected in the first round of the NBA (Lakers in 1999) draft.

>> Keith Arnold, the former Cretin-Derham Hall and Notre Dame pitcher who was lead producer of the Netflix summer hit “Find Me Falling” starring Harry Connick Jr., controls movie rights for the St. Paul-based novel “Until They Bring the Streetcars Back,” which he’s working on. Arnold is also a lead private equity producer for Minneapolis-based Brown & Brown.

>> New Mexico senior Carson Herron, son of Deephaven’s Tim Herron of the PGA Champions Tour, shot 66-67-68-68 (11-under-par) to finish tied for 12th in the recent PGA Tour Americas tournament at Cragun’s in Brainerd.

>> Paul Bernabei, the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference basketball MVP from St. John’s in 1969, passed away the other day at 78 from pancreatic cancer.

>> Mike Larson, the former Gophers goaltender and pitcher and Mechanic Arts star who coached at Minnetonka, died a week ago in Orlando, Fla., from Alzheimer’s disease at 84.

>> Jason Nickleby from Lake Elmo has become a Big Ten football referee crew chief who worked the Syracuse-Ohio game.

>> Local basketball referee Eric Curry is expected to work a lot of Big Ten and Mountain West men’s games this year.

>> Cretin-Derham Hall’s 2024 Hall of Fame class: Nikki Conway, Michael Floyd, Julie Hamiel, Arvesta Kelly Jr, Katie Stephens, Jim O’Neill, Jeff Rosga, Dick Strutz and Tom Warner for a Sept. 26 dinner at the St. Paul school.

>> Goaltender Jaxson Stauber, 25, son of former Gophers Hobey Baker-winning goalie Robb Sauber, has agreed to a $775,000 deal with NHL Utah.

>> Goaltender Kam Hendrickson from Chanhassen has committed to Princeton.

>> In a recent Town and Country Club men’s scramble event that ended in the dark, two golfers — Dan Bettenburg and Doug Kottke — teeing off on the same par-three 18th hole, made holes-in-one.

>> Augsburg University midfielder Mitchel Munzinger scored three goals in the second half of his team’s 7-1 soccer victory over Crown College last week. He missed the first half to attend his physics class lab.