Kevin Stefanski's rise with the Vikings has taken him from being a coaches assistant in 2006 to offensive coordinator in January at age 37.
One person not surprised about that climb is former Vikings head coach Brad Childress, who hired Stefanski for that first job 13 years ago.
"[Stefanski] had been a training camp intern for us up in Lehigh with the Philadelphia Eagles," said Childress, who was a quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator with the Eagles from 1999-2005. "I knew him as a player at the University of Pennsylvania [where Stefanski was a defensive back], and he impressed me with the way he carried himself during training camp.