{"id":654415,"date":"2026-05-20T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:56:08","slug":"vikings-ready-to-move-on-to-next-round-of-gm-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654415\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings ready to move on to next round of GM interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings are moving closer to naming their next General Manager. <\/p>\n<p>Owner Mark Wilf said at Tuesday\u2019s league meetings that the team has reached the end of their first round of \u201cexploratory interviews\u201d for the post. The Vikings fired Kwesi Adofo-Mensah this offseason and executive vice president of football operations Rob Brzezinski has been handling the responsibilities on a temporary basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we\u2019re gonna go <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/vikings-general-manager-search-mark-wilf-rob-brzezinski-kwesi-adofo-mensah\/601846313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">more in-depth<\/a> in the coming days, more in-person versus virtual, and I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll have some great conversations,\u201d Wilf said, via Emily Leiker of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Brzezinski is a candidate to take the job on a permanent basis. 49ers assistant GM RJ Gillen, Bills assistant GM Terrance Gray, Rams assistant GM John McKay, Seahawks assistant GM Nolan Teasley, Titans assistant GM Dave Ziegler, Lions Assistant GM Ray Agnew, and Broncos assistant GM Reed Burckhardt were also involved in the first round of interviews for the job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings are moving closer to naming their next General Manager. Owner Mark Wilf said at Tuesday\u2019s league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-654415","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\/654415","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=654415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}