Minnesota is firing general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, according to a Friday morning report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter later confirmed by the team. Adofo-Mensah, 44, had served in the role since the 2022 season. The move comes less than a year after the Vikings opted to extend Adofo-Mensah’s contract in May 2025.
I’m honestly surprised it took this long. To make such an obviously terrible decision at QB is not a survivable offense as a general manager. I’m not bothered by them electing not to pay top dollar to Sam Darnold, although I had argued that they should lock him up with a decent contract halfway through the 2024 season, once it became clear that he was better than average. Darnold should win the Super Bowl with the Seahawks, but he was never going to do it with the Vikings offensive line and running game.
But letting Daniel Jones go when you already had him willing to sign an inexpensive contract just because you wouldn’t even give him a chance to compete with an untested, injured rookie? Even if it’s Darnold making it to the Super Bowl that sealed his fate, the Jones debacle was the more serious problem.