Ryan Cordell enters his second season with the Minnesota Vikings after spending the three seasons (2019-21) with the Cleveland Browns working as a coaching assistant.
In 2022, Cordell served as the Vikings game management coordinator and played a key role in helping the Vikings become "situational masters." The team finished the regular season with an 11-0 record in one score games after finishing 5-8 in those same situations the previous season.
Cordell served as interim running backs coach for the final 10 games of the 2021 season. He helped the Browns lead the NFL in rushing average with a 5.09 mark, the highest average by a Browns team since 1966. RB Nick Chubb finish second in the league in rushing yards en route to a Pro Bowl selection and being named a finalist for the FedEx NFL Ground Player of the Year. Cordell also served as the running backs coach for the East team in the 2022 East-West Shrine Bowl.
Cordell worked closely with the offensive line during his first season on the Browns coaching staff, helping the club finish third in the league in rushing with an average of 148.4 yards per game (the team's best since 1978). He also helped T Jack Conklin earn Associated Press First-Team All-Pro honors and G Joel Bitonio and G Wyatt Teller earn Second-Team honors. Bitonio was also selected to the Pro Bowl, while first round pick T Jedrick Wills Jr. was voted the NFL Pepsi Zero Sugar Rookie of the Week for Week 10, becoming just the fourth offensive lineman to win the award since its inception in 2002 and first since 2013.
Cordell spent five seasons (2014-18) with the San Francisco 49ers, serving as special assistant to the general manager during his final two seasons. While with the 49ers, Cordell worked with Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, Head Coach Kevin O'Connell and running backs/run game coordinator Curtis Modkins.
In 2016, Cordell was the team's football operations coordinator, assisting with internal projects across all football departments. He served as an offensive assistant on the 49ers coaching staff in 2015, breaking down film for the offense, running the scout team, assisting all offensive coaches and assisting in the coaching of the running back position.
Cordell originally joined the 49ers in 2014 as a salary cap intern, assisting with various roster composition and salary allocation research.
Cordell graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's in mathematics and a master's in business administration.
