The Vikings announced what are expected to be the final moves for their 2021 coaching staff on Wednesday afternoon, promoting co-defensive coordinator Andre Patterson to assistant head coach and adding two more assistants.
Patterson's promotion, which follows his move from defensive line coach to co-defensive coordinator last year, is the latest upgrade for the 60-year-old, who worked with Dennis Green in Minnesota from 1998-99 and has been a close confidant of coach Mike Zimmer's during their seven seasons together with the Vikings.
They have known one another since their time at Weber State in the late 1980s.