With the Minnesota Vikings firing general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah in January of this year, the team has been looking to find a permanent replacement ahead of the 2026 season. As the Vikings are in search of a general manager, this NFL insider discusses the potential ways that the team could look for one.
According to Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated, there are “two roads” that Minnesota's general manager search will go, with the first being that the team promotes executive vice president of football operations Rob Brzezinski. Having been with the team since 1999, he was the interim general manager for the team after Adofo-Mensah's firing.
“The first is that the team simply elevates EVP of football operations Rob Brzezinski, who has been with the organization since 1999, into the full-time role after he served there in the past three months on an interim basis. The second, to me, is a bit more interesting,” Breer wrote.
The second option would be a new avenue for the Vikings
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With the Vikings looking to make some noise in the NFC North in the 2026 season, the other road that the team could go down with their general manager opening is an “interesting” one, as Breer wrote. It would involve a pathway that “teams are starting to take in setting up their football sides,” which is splitting up the role between multiple people.
Breer would note how teams like the Los Angeles Rams, the Detroit Lions, and the Carolina Panthers are successful franchises, or are on that trajectory, that have done it this way.
“When six assistant GMs emerged last week as candidates—the Chargers’ Chad Alexander, 49ers’ RJ Gillen, Bills’ Terrance Gray, Rams’ John McKay, Seahawks’ Nolan Teasley, and Titans’ Dave Ziegler all got interview requests—it made perfect sense that all six came from the scouting side. Each would pair well with Brzezinski in that new-age sort of setup…Kevin O’Connell got to see at work in his two years with the Rams,” Breer wrote.
It remains to be seen which path the Vikings will go down when it comes to their general manager search.
With the Minnesota Vikings firing general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah in January of this year, the team has been looking to find a permanent replacement ahead of the 2026 season. As the Vikings are in search of a general manager, this NFL insider discusses the potential ways that the team could look for one.