{"id":507525,"date":"2026-01-30T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507525"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:35:06","slug":"vikings-dismiss-general-manager-adofo-mensah-after-4-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vikings-dismiss-general-manager-adofo-mensah-after-4-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings dismiss general manager Adofo-Mensah after 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings dismissed GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah today, an unexpected turn after the franchise&#8217;s failure to make the postseason in the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota owners Zygi and Mark Wilf claimed that Rob Brzezinski, the team\u2019s executive vice president of football operations, will run the Vikings\u2019 front office through the 2026 draft, after which a search for a new GM will begin.<\/p>\n<p>It was a very odd time for the firing of the general manager, as Kwesi had given a postseason news conference earlier this month and had spent the past few days in Mobile, Alabama, scouting Senior Bowl practices. It wasn\u2019t even a year since Adofo-Mensah inked a multiyear deal extension.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings had 3 winning campaigns in their 4-year period as GM, and their .632 winning percentage over that period is even for the 5<sup>th<\/sup> best in the league. But Minnesota is 0-2 in the playoffs, and Kwesi\u2019s drafts have been among the NFL\u2019s least productive.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vikings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Vikings<\/a> announce General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has been relieved of his duties. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JYUHgjbU5x\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JYUHgjbU5x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vikings\/status\/2017296264313114739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings dismissed GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah today, an unexpected turn after the franchise&#8217;s failure to make the postseason in the current campaign. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507526,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27024,17167],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[27025,18175],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Minnesota fired the GM Kwesi after 4 seasons.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507527,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507525\/revisions\/507527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507525"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507525"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}