While the Minnesota Vikings are set with their head coach, Kevin O’Connell, they are happy with their reigning Coach of the Year. Not every team has that luxury, as some have already gotten a head start on their search for new leaders by firing coaches midseason. Teams like the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants fired their coaches and will now be searching for new ones that fit their current team.
We bring all this up because there is a former Vikings assistant who is getting his name mentioned a lot for the openings around the league.
Klint Kubiak joined the Vikings in 2013 as a quality control coach. He also joined the staff a second time by becoming the quarterbacks coach from 2019-2020 before becoming their playcaller in 2020. He has been around the NFL for a while, both in his career and his father’s. Now, in 2025, he is the offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks, and that work is getting him more attention.
Bleacher Report listed coaches who should have the most interest in the next hiring cycle, and he was among them. Kristopher Knox writes, “Kubiak’s work with (Sam) Darnold will probably garner the most attention. Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell was last season’s Coach of the Year, due in no small part to the quarterback’s ascension. Kubiak has shown he’s equally adept at getting the most out of a talented signal-caller. That will be important to any franchise looking to develop a young QB. The fact that Kubiak will only turn 39 in February could work in his favor as well. Teams looking for the next young ‘offensive guru’ should have him high on their lists.”
While he may not be a Vikings coach anymore, he would be another former assistant who has found their way to roaming the sideline as a head coach.