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He spoke on Tuesday
On Tuesday, Minnesota Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah spoke at the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine and took questions from the media in attendance. Courtesy of the team, we have both the video of what Adofo-Mensah had to say as well as a full transcript for those of you who would like to either follow along or just read the transcript yourself.
Good afternoon. Always excited to be in Indy here at the combine. Looking forward to – already started interviews – looking forward to do more in the hopes and the search of improving this team for 2025.
Where are you in terms of a possibility of bringing Sam Darnold back either on a franchise tag or on an extension?
Yeah, we’re still in that place where we’re having all these discussions. Every option is afforded to us. When we did the move originally, we wanted to create optionality and part of the optionality was believing and betting in a guy who is young, talented, believing in our infrastructure able to do the things we are able to do with quarterbacks, so right now we’re in a position where we have options and we’ll continue to work those options and figure out the best way for the Vikings to move forward.
One of those options is Daniel Jones? Do you see him as you could get him back as a backup or is he a starter in this league and you expect him to look for a job like that?
We try to not be as binary with the quarterback conversation as others are, where either you’re one of the top three or you’re nobody, and so we kind of talk about it a little differently. But Daniel’s somebody we wanted to bring in for that reason just to learn about him, see what he’d be like in our building, in our culture. He’s a great option for us. Again, he’s like the other options we have, we’ll think about them and go forward.
Talk about [Sam] Darnold, considering how his year went and everything that he did and then how it ended.
Yeah, it’s tough. I was telling my staff if I could’ve thought of a brain teaser of an experiment to think through that would have been a pretty tough one where Pro Bowl *quarterback, win all those games and then you lose to two teams twice. So that was really kind of the core of our off-season, really thinking through that holistically. Not trying to be overweighted by those eight quarters, but not underweighting those last two games. And really, he played a lot of good football for us year one in the system so you can expect more later. We’re excited for the potential for Sam whatever that ends up being. It’s a tough exercise but I want to make sure that we’re continuing saying we’re so proud of what he did for us, we’re so proud of this...
