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Ryan Cordell, who spent the past four seasons (2022-25) as Minnesota's Game Management Coordinator/Passing Game Specialist, has been promoted to tight ends coach while maintaining his game management duties. He enters his 13th season in the NFL and fifth season with the Vikings in 2026. 

Cordell has worked closely with Minnesota's tight ends during each of the past two seasons (2024-25), helping Josh Oliver to a career-best four touchdown receptions during the 2025 season. Upon the return of TE T.J. Hockenson in Week 9 of the 2024 season, the team's tight ends combined for 61 receptions for 690 receiving yards and led the NFL in yards per catch (11.8 yards/reception) among teams that targeted their tight ends at least 70 times in that span.

Ryan Cordell, who spent the past four seasons (2022-25) as Minnesota's Game Management Coordinator/Passing Game Specialist, has been promoted to tight ends coach while maintaining his game management duties. He enters his 13th season in the NFL and fifth season with the Vikings in 2026. 

Cordell has worked closely with Minnesota's tight ends during each of the past two seasons (2024-25), helping Josh Oliver to a career-best four touchdown receptions during the 2025 season. Upon the return of TE T.J. Hockenson in Week 9 of the 2024 season, the team's tight ends combined for 61 receptions for 690 receiving yards and led the NFL in yards per catch (11.8 yards/reception) among teams that targeted their tight ends at least 70 times in that span. 

Prior to arriving in Minnesota, Cordell was with the Cleveland Browns for three seasons (2019-21), serving as a football research analyst in his first year (2019) before spending his final two seasons as a coaching assistant (2020-21). He also served as the interim running backs coach for the final 10 games of the 2021 season. 

Cordell began his NFL career with the San Francisco 49ers as a salary cap intern in 2014. In his five seasons in San Francisco (2014-18), Cordell was an offensive assistant (2015), football operations coordinator (2016), and the special assistant to the general manager (2017-18).