The Minnesota Vikings exchanged their old regime around Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman in the low season for the new general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and head coach Kevin O’Connell. So far, that combination has been quite successful with a record of 34-17 in the regular season.
Look away: the concept figures of 2022 are here
However, their start was terrible. After a non -spectacular period of free desk because of the limitations of the Cap -Space Vail, the duo switched to the design to fill a few holes. Almost half of the positions could have used some reinforcements, and the 12th general choice was a way to find a striking artist.
Adofo-Mensah then decided to exchange that choice for Picks 32 and 34 (in addition to another shuffling). The players he subsequently selected were huge failures, and the design class will fall one of the worst in franchise history.
Pete Prisco, CBS Sporthave received all 32 draft classes that year. In the beginning he was not a fan of the collection, so he gave a C immediately after the design, but the figure fell to an F. three years later.
He wrote: “General manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah was only working for a short time when he handled this year with his first concept. It was not good. The Vikings were traded in a few times and tried to get more choices, but the top two are no longer on the Roster.”
Adofo-Mensah had just been adopted a few months prior to the design and the reconnaissance department was still a remains of the Spielman regime. He facilitated the trade to get the chance to fill more holes instead of choosing a safer prospect to solve one problem.
The young director said last year: “When I entered the building to compete [with an] Ondergering schedule, salary cap items, I think there were moments when I felt 33 nothing. And as we all know, that game, it starts with one game, one disk and you build. And I think sometimes I have been guilty of trying to have a 33-point game at the same time. And I think once I had identified it, once you have seen it since then, it has been really fundamental, just taken good steps, built up to a certain critical point where I think we are competing in the long term. “
However, worse than trade was the fact that he chose players who can now be entitled busts.
“Safety in the first round Lewis Cine never started a competition and sustained a large ankle injury in his Rookie season,” Prisco added. “He is now at the Eagles after he has been released. Second round corner Andrew Booth was traded to the cowboys last year after starting two games for the Vikings. Note: Chandler was a selection of the 5th round, not 6th.
Cine’s Vikings official period was at his best bad luck. He first entered a safety room with emerging second -year cam Bynum and could not release him to take the place next to Harrison Smith, and was even behind Josh Metellus. As we all know now, Metellus turned out to be more than just a generic backup.
Then Cine suffered a few games in a horrible injury in his career. The next time he saw the practice field, the Vikings had exchanged defensive coordinators, and the plan that the decision makers had for him was Kaput. Cine was abandoned after his third preseason after he had not shown the necessary growth.
Booth Jr. had a similar term of office. Injuries cost him the majority of his Rookie season, and Brian Flores had no ties with him when he arrived in 2023. He stayed in a back -uprol during his second campaign, and the Vikings said goodbye to the last preseason when they sent him to Dallas in exchange for Nahshon Wright.
Ed Ingram, the third pick, a second rounder, started for three years but was gave birth to Dalton Risner last season. This outdoor season signed the Front Office Will Fries and then exchanged Ingram to Houston. Third-rounder Brian Asamoah has been no more than a player with special teams.
Akayleb Evans started competitions in 2022 and the entire season 2023, but he was abandoned during his third season. Vederian Lowe was traded to New England for a sixth-rounder, who was his original draw round, so that choice can at least be considered a wash. Nick Muse was a tight end for three years. He joined Cine in Philadelphia, and Esezi Otomewo recently signed with the Steelers after starting a few games for the Jaguars last season.
The only tricks that are still on the Roster are Brian Asamoah, Jalen nailor and Ty Chandler. Nailor is the current WR3 and had a Breakout season in 2024 with six touchdowns. Chandler has been RB2 or RB3 for three years. He can endanger his schedule in August and remains a player to look through in the coming months. Asamoah will also have to fight to make the last team.
There is not much to defend here. Day three, Chandler, Nailor, Lowe and Evans, does not choose terrible choices at all, but the rest of the group was undoubtedly. Nobody can complain about an F.
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