Only two members of their 12-player class are unsigned"

WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Vikings 2018 SeasonVikings 2019 OffseasonU.S. Bank StadiumMinnesota Vikings PodcastsMinnesota Vikings 2019 NFL DraftVikings sign two more draft picksNew Kirk Cousins Jersey ,40commentsOnly two members of their 12-player class are unsignedCDTShareTweetShareShareVikings sign two more draft picksNelson Chenault-USA TODAY SportsThe front office for the Minnesota Vikings is continuing to get the job done a week after the 2019 NFL Draft, as two more members of the team’s draft class have officially signed their first NFL contract.Arkansas defensive tackle Armon Watts and Texas cornerback Kris Boyd have both put pen to paper over the past couple of days, meaning that ten of the twelve players that Rick Spielman and company drafted last week are officially signed.Watts, one of the team’s three sixth-round selections, actually signed his deal on Friday when everyone was in Eagan for the team’s rookie mini-camp. Here are the terms of his deal, per Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.Boyd, the first of the four picks the Vikings made in the seventh round of last week’s draft, signed his deal on Sunday morning.With these two signings, the only draftees that remain unsigned are the team’s first-round pick, North Carolina State center Garrett Bradbury Adrian Peterson Jersey , and the last player they selected, Air Force long snapper Austin Cutting.Given the cap hit that Bradbury is going to carry, the team won’t be able to sign him until they clear up some space. It’s possible that Cutting’s deal is being held up by discussions about his service commitment, but there hasn’t been anything official on that yet. He was in Eagan this weekend participating in the rookie mini-camp with the rest of the team’s draft picks and undrafted free agents, however. EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The allure of the gameday atmosphere was simply too strong for Gary Kubiak to ignore, having spent the past two years in a non-coaching role for Denver following another health scare.He found his place in Minnesota, with this natural opportunity to add an experienced leader and accomplished strategist to a fluctuated offensive coaching staff .“As a first-time coordinator, I would have been foolish not to go do everything in our power to bring in a guy who has been in seven Super Bowls as a player and a coach,” Vikings offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski said.Though Kubiak was the play-caller for the 2015-16 champion Broncos John Randle Jersey , his ninth of 10 seasons as an NFL head coach, that responsibility will rest with Stefanski, who has given the Vikings their own millennial-generation offensive guide in a league that has fast filled up with them. As an assistant head coach to Mike Zimmer and offensive adviser, though, Kubiak will bring a long history of supervising productive offenses and a low-ego, laid-back personality set up to mesh well with the staff.The Vikings also hired his son, Klint Kubiak (quarterbacks), and two of his longtime colleagues, Rick Dennison (offensive line) and Brian Pariani (tight ends), to try to help support Stefanski and give the offense a lift after lagging below the league average in the first season with quarterback Kirk Cousins. Gary Kubiak will be in the booth during games Alan Page Jersey , with Stefanski on the sideline. Dennison will also hold the title of running game coordinator.“I like to be surrounded by smart people,” Stefanski said.After serving as Denver’s backup quarterback behind Pro Football Hall of Fame member John Elway on three AFC title-winning teams, Kubiak broke into the NFL coaching ranks as quarterbacks coach for the Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers in the 1994-95 season. He was offensive coordinator for the Broncos for the next 11 years, winning two more Super Bowls along the way, before becoming head coach of the Houston Texans.Kubiak suffered a mini-stroke during a game there in 2013, leading to his departure. He returned to the Broncos as head coach in 2015 and promptly won another Super Bowl. He was hospitalized again in 2016 due to a complex migraine condition that caused extreme fatigued and declared his retirement at the end of that season.Elway, now Denver’s president of football operations, then assigned Kubiak as a personnel adviser. The first year he did the job from his farm outside Houston, before working full time at Broncos headquarters in 2018. That’s when Kubiak realized he wanted back in the coaching game. He was widely expected to serve as new Denver head coach Vic Fangio’s offensive coordinator, but the two sides weren’t able to agree on the schematics .“I missed it. I really did. There’s just something about it at the end of the week: ‘Did we get a ‘W’ or not?’ Just that feeling Randy Moss Jersey ,” Kubiak said, adding: “I love being around players. I love to teach. This gives me an opportunity to get back and do that.”For the 57-year-old Kubiak, the high-stress job of a head coach won’t work anymore, but other than his recovery from a recent hip replacement surgery he said he’s feeling good. The focus with Stefanski, Dennison and the rest of the staff this winter has been to revamp the playbook in a way that utilizes the type of zone-blocking runs and play-action passes the Broncos enjoyed success with during Kubiak’s tenure there but strives to avoid predictability.Cousins started his career with Washington under head coach Mike Shanahan, who was Kubiak’s boss on those late-1990s championship teams in Denver, so there’s a solid philosophical connection from which the Vikings to build.“We need to do everything we can to help him out. I look forward to that relationship,” Kubiak said. “Hopefully being in there a little bit — well, what little bit John let me play in my career — I can recall some of those things.”