EAGAN, Minn. (AP) The Minnesota Vikings promoted Ryan Ficken to special teams coordinator and hired Josh Hingst as strength and conditioning coach on Monday.
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2021/02/02 07:14 EAGAN, Minn. (AP) The Minnesota Vikings promoted Ryan Ficken to special teams coordinator and hired Josh Hingst as strength and conditioning coach on Monday. Ficken is the longest-tenured coach on the staff, entering his 15th season with Minnesota. He was the assistant special teams coach for eight years and will now replace Marwan Maalouf, whose contract was not renewed after two seasons in the role. Special teams were a major problem in 2020 for the Vikings, from missed kicks to short punts to bad snaps to coverage lapses and penalties. Hingst was the strength and conditioning coach for the Philadelphia Eagles for the past eight seasons. He replaces Mark Uyeyama, who had the job for the past four years.
Minnesota Vikings Name New Special Teams Coordinator
A long time member of the Vikings organization has been promoted to the special teams coordinator.
Ryan Ficken has been with the Minnesota Vikings for 14 years and has spent the previous 8 seasons as the assistant special teams coordinator, and he s now been promoted to special teams coordinator replacing Marwan Maalouf after his contract was not renewed. Ficken also spent a few seasons as the Vikings assistant wide receivers coach, and a couple seasons as the assistant running backs coach.
Special teams was a large problem for the Minnesota Vikings last season, the team ranked last in the league in both field goal percentage (68.2) and punt return average (4.3). On top of that, the team allowed a kickoff return for a touchdown, a pair of blocked punts, had 11 total penalties called on special teams.