The hiring of Seahawks assistant G.M. Nolan Teasley as the Vikings\u2019 new G.M. will carry a specific benefit for his former team.<\/p>\n
Per the league, Teasley qualifies as a diverse candidate under the NFL provision that gives the former team of a newly-hired G.M. or head coach a pair of third-round compensatory draft picks.<\/p>\n
The only question is whether Teasley will be Minnesota\u2019s \u201cprimary football executive.\u201d That requirement prevented the Bears from receiving the compensatory draft picks when assistant General Manager Ian Cunningham was hired to be the Falcons G.M. The league decided that president of football Matt Ryan is the \u201cprimary football executive\u201d in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
The Bears appealed the decision to the league<\/a>, and Bears fans continue to be mystified by the outcome \u2014 especially since Ryan has made it clear that Cunningham is a General Manager \u201cin every facet of the word<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Minnesota has no similar position to Ryan\u2019s job with the Falcons. The only alternative to Teasley would be coach Kevin O\u2019Connell. But there has been no indication that, moving forward, O\u2019Connell will emerge as the top football executive for the Vikings, with full control over the roster and the draft.<\/p>\n The NFL\u2019s full collection of diversity of initiatives have recently come under attack by Florida\u2019s attorney general. The Seahawks getting two extra third-round draft picks undoubtedly will spark a reaction from those who, in the current climate, attack efforts aimed at enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hiring of Seahawks assistant G.M. Nolan Teasley as the Vikings\u2019 new G.M. will carry a specific benefit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-675976","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\/675976","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=675976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}