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.