{"id":488839,"date":"2026-02-25T03:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:32:07","slug":"kwesi-adofo-mensah-returns-to-49ers-as-a-personnel-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488839\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Adofo-Mensah returns to 49ers as a personnel executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has found a new job. <\/p>\n<p>49ers General Manager John Lynch said at a Tuesday press conference that Adofo-Mensah is joining the team as a personnel executive. The Vikings fired Adofo-Mensah in January after four seasons with the team. <\/p>\n<p>This is Adofo-Mensah\u2019s second time working for the 49ers. He was their manager of football research and development from 2013-2016 and the director of football research and development from 2017-2019. Adofo-Mensah worked under Lynch in the latter position. <\/p>\n<p>Adofo-Mensah spent two years as the Browns\u2019 vice president of football operations before landing the GM job in Minnesota. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has found a new job. 49ers General Manager John Lynch said at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-488839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}