Tony Sorrentino was hired as Arizona's wide receivers coach on 2/20/26. Prior to joining the Cardinals, he spent the past four seasons (2022-25) in Minnesota as the Vikings assistant wide receivers coach. Sorrentino has eight years of NFL coaching experience after also spending four seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Over Sorrentino's four years in Minnesota, Vikings WR Justin Jefferson posted 383 receptions (4th in the NFL) for a league-leading 5,464 receiving yards and 25 TDs. His 14.3 yards per reception also ranked 6th in the league over that span. Jefferson was the 2022 NFL Offensive Player of the Year, a two-time first-team All-Pro selection (2022, '24) and a two-time Pro Bowl selection (2022, '24) during Sorrentino's tenure. He led the NFL in both receptions (128) and receiving yards (1,809) in 2022, becoming just the sixth player in NFL history to reach 1,800 receiving yards in a season. Jefferson went over 1,000 receiving yards in each of his four seasons working with Sorrentino.
Jefferson became just the fifth player in NFL history to tally at least 100 receptions and 1,500 receiving yards in his first three seasons. In 2023, Jefferson averaged 107.4 receiving yards per game, finishing second in the league behind WR Tyreek Hill (112.4).
Sorrentino also helped develop Vikings WR Jordan Addison as he was named to the PFWA All-Rookie team in 2023. In his debut, Addison led all NFL rookies with 10 receiving TDs while also finishing the season ranked third in receiving yards (911) and yards per game (53.6), fifth in yards per reception (13.0) and sixth in receptions (70). Addison joined Sammy White and Anthony Carter as the fifth-fastest players in Vikings history to record 2,000 career receiving yards (35 games) and also became the third-fastest Viking to record 20 career TDs (34 games). He ranked third in franchise history in receiving yards by a player in his first two seasons (1,786). Addison totaled 2,396 receiving yards and 22 TDs in three years working with Sorrentino.
In 2024, the Vikings had three players (Jefferson, Addison, Jalen Nailor) with at least six TD receptions in a single season for just the third time in team history.
Prior re-joining the NFL coaching ranks, Sorrentino worked at Northern Illinois for three years (2019-21). In 2021, he helped NIU to a 9-5 record a MAC Championship Game victory. He mentored WR Trayvon Rudolph who was named to the 2021 All-MAC second-team after recording 49 receptions for 877 yards and seven TDs. Sorrentino joined the Huskies in 2019 working with tight ends, fullbacks and inside wide receivers before shifting to wide receivers in 2020 and adding the title of pass game coordinator in 2021. He spent the 2018 season at Florida Atlantic as director of football operations after working at Tennessee in 2017 as a wide receivers analyst.
He started his NFL coaching career with the Jacksonville Jaguars where he spent four seasons (2013-16) as the team's assistant wide receivers coach. He helped WR Allen Robinson to a Pro Bowl nod in 2015 after he posted 1,400 receiving yards and 14 TDs. In 2015, WR Allen Hurns became the youngest undrafted player since the 1970 NFL merger to surpass 1,000 receiving yards. Under his tutelage, WR Marquise Lee set career-highs in receptions (63), receiving yards (851) and TDs (3) in 2016.
Sorrentino spent one season in 2011 at the University of Miami as an offensive graduate assistant before returning to his alma mater, the College of New Jersey, as the quarterbacks coach/pass game coordinator in 2012.
He began his collegiate coaching career at the University of Minnesota as an offensive quality control coach (2009) before being promoted to coach quarterbacks in 2010. Sorrentino developed QB Adam Weber who had a career year in 2010, throwing for 2,679 yards and 20 TDs.
Sorrentino began his coaching career at the New Jersey high school level, spending time at Montville Township High School (2008), West Essex High School (2006) and Morristown Beard High School (2005).
He and wife, Kara, have three children, daughter Marea and two sons, Anthony Jr. and Luca.
