{"id":568800,"date":"2026-04-07T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568800\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:07:08","slug":"vikings-wont-begin-g-m-search-until-after-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568800\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings won&#8217;t begin G.M. search until after the draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings have not started their search for a permanent General Manager to replace Kwesi Adofo-Mensah.<\/p>\n<p>The team fired Adofo-Mensah on Jan. 30, naming Rob Brzezinski as the interim G.M.<\/p>\n<p>During the NFL\u2019s spring meetings last week, Vikings owner Mark Wilf laid out the structure of the search.<\/p>\n<p>He said, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN, that a \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48358306\/nfl-owners-meetings-2026-buzz-annual-league-draft-phoenix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">small, tight group<\/a>\u201d would advise the Wilf family on the decision, with \u201cinput\u201d from coach Kevin O\u2019Connell and chief operating officer Andrew Miller. A \u201cthird-party\u201d will also participate in the search, although Wilf said the team won\u2019t use a search firm or a formal consultant.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Vikings will contract with a service to reduce an initial list of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The team won\u2019t begin interviews until after the April 23-25 draft, with Brzezinski, a longtime executive vice president with the Vikings, helping O\u2019Connell run the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s done an outstanding job in terms of in the building, building consensus, strategy,\u201d Wilf said, via Seifter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings have not started their search for a permanent General Manager to replace Kwesi Adofo-Mensah. The team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-568800","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\/568800","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=568800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}