Will Fries

CAREER NOTES

• Saw action in 40 games (31 starts) in four seasons with the Colts (2021-24), only allowing 7.0 sacks, according to Pro Football Focus.

2025 | MINNESOTA VIKINGS

• Started all 17 games at RG in 2025, playing a team-high 98.8% of the team's offensive snaps.
• Played in his 50th career game (regular season only) in Week 10 vs. Baltimore (11/9).
• Made his Vikings debut in Week 1 at Chicago (9/8) on Monday Night Football, starting at RG and playing 100% of the team's offensive snaps.

CAREER NOTES

• Saw action in 40 games (31 starts) in four seasons with the Colts (2021-24), only allowing 7.0 sacks, according to Pro Football Focus.

2025 | MINNESOTA VIKINGS

• Started all 17 games at RG in 2025, playing a team-high 98.8% of the team's offensive snaps.
• Played in his 50th career game (regular season only) in Week 10 vs. Baltimore (11/9).
• Made his Vikings debut in Week 1 at Chicago (9/8) on Monday Night Football, starting at RG and playing 100% of the team's offensive snaps.

2024 | INDIANAPOLIS COLTS

• Started all five games he appeared in before suffering a season-ending leg injury in Week 5.

2023 | INDIANAPOLIS COLTS

• Started each of the Colts 17 games during the 2023 season at RG.
• Was part of an offensive line that did not allow a sack in Week 2 (at Houston Texans) or Week 10 (at New England Patriots).

2022 | INDIANAPOLIS COLTS

• Started nine of the 16 games he played in 2022.
• Made his first career start, which came at RG, in Week 4 vs. the Tennessee Titans (10/2).

2021 | INDIANAPOLIS COLTS

• Appeared in two games during his rookie season in 2021.

COLLEGE - PENN STATE

• Appeared in 48 games (42 starts) in five seasons at Penn State (2016-20), starting 26 games at RT, nine at LT, six at RG and one at LG, following his redshirt freshman season in 2016.

HONORS

• All-Big Ten Second Team (2020)
• Penn State's Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2020)
• Honorable Mention All-Big Ten (2019)

PREP - CRANFORD (N.J.)

• Was a three-time letterman in football, four-time letterman for the track & field team in the shot put and discus and a one-year letterman in basketball at Cranford High School.
• As a senior, was a team captain at RG and DL and helped lead the team to an undefeated season and state championship.
• Four-star prospect per Rivals and three-star prospect per ESPN and 247Sports.

OFF THE FIELD

• Full name is William Connor Fries.
• Son of Harold and Maureen Fries.
• Has two sisters, Mallory and Kristen, and a brother, Matthew.
• Wife, Isabella, played college basketball at Loyola University Maryland. She now owns IT Home Improvement in Indianapolis.
• Earned his degree in economics from Penn State in 2019.
• Represented Tunnels to Towers (2023) and Headstrong (2021) as part of the NFL's My Cause My Cleats initiative.