Vikings defensive end Jared Allen is a new father. His wife gave birth to their first child, a little girl named Brinley Noel Allen. Leslie Frazier says Allen is as "pumped up as you can imagine."

Jared Allen can dress up as himself for Halloween tonight. He had another monstrous game Sunday against Carolina, with five tackles, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and another sack. He’s still on pace to shatter the NFL sack record of 22.5.

Jared Allen knows football isn't rocket science. It's so simple in fact that Allen says the Vikings are good when they do their jobs, but bad when they don't. It's also simple getting fired up to the Packers. When the Vikes face Green Bay this Sunday, he says everyone will be trying.

Defensive end Jared Allen has been named to his fourth career Pro Bowl. Allen leads the NFL with 18.5-sacks -- a career best -- and he's only three-sacks shy of a Vikings' single-season record. Allen's 101.5-sacks is most in the NFL since he entered the league in 2004. No other Vikings were named to the Pro Bowl.

Another day, another big award for Jared Allen. The Vikings’ defensive end was named the Sporting News Defensive Player of the Year. Allen terrorized NFL quarterbacks this season, piling up a franchise-record 22 sacks.

Jared Allen is on Yahoo’s midseason All-NFL team. Allen gets the nod at defensive end, where he’s succeeding despite the Vikings’ 2-6 record. Allen has 13 sacks through 8 games -- and is on pace to break the single-season sacks record.

Jared Allen says he was only kidding last week when he said he would drown himself in a river if he had to live in Detroit. Despite finishing the game with three sacks, Allen was jeered at throughout the Vikings' loss to the Lions. Allen made the comment on his KFAN radio show.

Jared Allen's dominance is going unnoticed in the pass-happy NFL. The defensive end leads the league with 8.5 sacks through five games, and he's on pace to break Michael Strahan's single season sack record of 22.5. Allen is on pace to finish with 27 sacks.