The Minnesota Vikings and Ed Donatell are finalizing their deal Thursday to make him the team's defensive coordinator, sources tell Dan Graziano and Jeremy Fowler.
The Vikings are expected to hire Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O'Connell as their new head coach after Super Bowl LVI, sources have told ESPN. With Donatell, O'Connell will have a coordinator with 31 years of NFL coaching experience leading his defense.
The Vikings are not permitted to announce O'Connell's hiring until after the completion of the Super Bowl because his team is still playing.
It was expected that Donatell would be joining Pete Carroll's staff with the Seattle Seahawks, but now Seattle is bracing for the possibility that he will join the Vikings.