{"id":442210,"date":"2026-02-01T05:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442210\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:11:11","slug":"vikings-hire-frank-smith-as-assistant-head-coach-several-other-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442210\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings hire Frank Smith as assistant head coach, several other assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings fired General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah on Friday and they moved on to filling out head coach Kevin O\u2019Connell\u2019s staff on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>NFL Media reports that they have hired Frank Smith as their assistant head coach. Smith was the Dolphins\u2019 offensive coordinator for the last four seasons. <\/p>\n<p>They have also hired offensive line coach Keith Carter, defensive backs coach\/pass game coordinator Gerald Alexander, and defensive line coach Ryan Nielsen. <\/p>\n<p>Carter was the assistant line coach in Minnesota while Alexander was the Steelers\u2019 defensive backs coach in 2025. Nielsen has been a defensive coordinator for the Saints, Falcons and Jaguars. He was a senior defensive assistant for the Bills in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings fired General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah on Friday and they moved on to filling out head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-442210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}