The Minnesota Vikings have yet to find a permanent replacement for Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, the general manager the team fired in January. At the moment, Minnesota has longtime executive vice president Rob Brzezinski serving the GM role on an interim basis.
According to Kevin Seifert of ESPN, Vikings owner Mark Wilf and his family will be getting advice from a “small, tight group” in finding the right person for the job.
Another notable detail laid out by Seifert is that interviews for Minnesota’s general manager gig will not begin until after the 2026 NFL Draft, which will take place from April 23 to 25.
Whoever becomes the next Vikings general manager will be running a team that greatly regressed in the 2025 season. After making the NFL playoffs with a 14-3 record in 2024, Minnesota went just 9-8 and missed the postseason in 2025.
Finding a stable presence under center could be a chief goal for Minnesota’s would-be GM, especially if the team’s gamble on quarterback Kyler Murray doesn’t pay off after signing the dual-threat signal-caller to a 1-year, $1.3 million contract in the offseason.
For now, the Vikings seem happy with Brzezinski filling the role temporarily, with Wilf saying, “He’s done an outstanding job in terms of building consensus and strategy within the organization.”
