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Report: Vikings looking to retain Special Teams Coach Mike Priefer

Mike Priefer has been the VIkings special teams coach since 2011, and he’s one of a couple holdovers Mike Zimmer kept from Leslie Frazier’s staff, after Zimmer replaced Frazier in 2014.

In that time, Priefer has been praised and vilified. He took over on an interim basis for one game when Mike Zimmer couldn’t coach due to health issues related to his eye in 2016, and by all accounts did a good job. On the flip side, he was also the center of the Chris Kluwe controversy back in 2014, and he almost lost his job over it.