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The Minnesota Vikings announced multiple front office changes Friday under new general manager Nolan Teasley, hiring Andrew Healy and Trent Kirchner as assistant general managers. The team also confirmed that Demitrius Washington is departing the organization.
Andrew Healy arrives from the Cleveland Browns, where he most recently worked as vice president of research and strategy. He initially joined Cleveland in 2016 as a senior player personnel strategist and was promoted to vice president of strategy three years later in 2019. In that role, he helped develop approaches for player evaluation, draft asset valuation, and decision-making models across football operations. Healy holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and completed his undergraduate studies in applied mathematics and political science at Yale. Before entering the NFL, he worked at Football Outsiders and spent time as an economics professor at Loyola Marymount University, progressing from assistant to full professor. In Minnesota, he is expected to serve as the secondary football executive with a focus on integrating data and advanced analytics into team operations.
Trent Kirchner joins the Vikings from the Seattle Seahawks, where he worked alongside Teasley for 13 years. He most recently served as vice president of player personnel since 2020, overseeing college scouting, pro personnel, roster construction, and player acquisition. Kirchner originally joined Seattle in 2010 after spending eight seasons as a pro scout with the Carolina Panthers. His Seahawks career included roles as assistant director of player personnel, pro personnel director, co-director of player personnel, and eventually vice president of player personnel. He began his NFL career as a Seahawks intern in 2000 and also previously worked as a college scouting coordinator for Washington. A Minnesota native and former quarterback at St. John’s University, Kirchner is renowned as an astute talent evaluator with experience contributing to multiple Super Bowl-winning roster builds.
Ryan Grigson, who previously served as assistant general manager under former Vikings GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, will remain with Minnesota in a different capacity, with his exact title yet to be finalized. Grigson was the general manager of the Indianapolis Colts from 2012 to 2016 and later held roles with the Browns in 2017 and 2020-21, as well as serving as a senior football consultant in Seattle between those tenures.
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