The Minnesota Vikings have agreed to a multiyear contract extension with head coach Kevin O'Connell, the team announced on its official website Tuesday (January 21). "Kevin is exactly who we believed him to be when we named him as our head coach – an innovative play caller,

EAGAN, Minn. — The Minnesota Vikings and head coach Kevin O'Connell have agreed to terms on a multi-year contract extension. The team announced the extension Tuesday afternoon, with owner and president Mark Wilf calling O'Connell an "innovative play caller, an excellent communicator, and strong leader."

The deal reached Tuesday follows a 14-3 regular season that defied external widespread preseason projections of at least a losing record if not a last-place finish in the NFC North.