{"id":684527,"date":"2026-01-17T16:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684527\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:39:15","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-grant-udinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684527\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things to know about Grant Udinski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3) At the Vikings, the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20241109223054\/https:\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-vikings-quarterbacks-coach-grant-udinski-jj-mccarthy-kevin-oconnell\/601177942#selection-595.205-595.466\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star<\/a> <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20241109223054\/https:\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-vikings-quarterbacks-coach-grant-udinski-jj-mccarthy-kevin-oconnell\/601177942#selection-595.205-595.466\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tribune<\/a> described Udinski as a &#8220;mentor&#8221; to rookie QB J.J. McCarthy in 2024. They would sit in meetings and take notes together, as well as practice reciting play calls. &#8220;&#8221;I feel like that&#8217;s where true intelligence, true wisdom lies: making complex concepts simple,&#8221; <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20241109223054\/https:\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-vikings-quarterbacks-coach-grant-udinski-jj-mccarthy-kevin-oconnell\/601177942#selection-1181.0-1181.216\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McCarthy said to the Star Tribune<\/a>. &#8220;You wouldn&#8217;t know he&#8217;s one of the smartest in the room. That&#8217;s something I really appreciate about him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4) Udinski&#8217;s first experience in coaching came as a graduate assistant at Baylor in 2019, working under Rhule and former defensive coordinator Phil Snow. That season, the Bears compiled an 11-3 record and advanced to the Big 12 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>5) Udinski transferred to Towson as a walk-on in 2016 and eventually earned a scholarship. After playing tight end at Davidson for one season, he switched positions to defensive end, and totaled 15 tackles in 2017. Then he made 28 tackles and 4.5 sacks as a senior while playing all 12 games in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3) At the Vikings, the Star Tribune described Udinski as a &#8220;mentor&#8221; to rookie QB J.J. McCarthy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,198,7,100009,81,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-684527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-grant-udinski-tracker","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115911430556690686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}