KAM back to 49'ers.... - Printable Version

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KAM back to 49'ers.... - purplefaithful - 02-25-2026

49ers to rehire former Vikings GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah for personnel role

Former Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah will return to the San Francisco 49ers, general manager John Lynch told reporters at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Feb. 24.

Adofo-Mensah will be rehired by the 49ers in a personnel executive role that will be formalized after the NFL draft, Lynch said.

Vikings ownership fired Adofo-Mensah on Jan. 30 after four seasons — and just eight months after he signed a multiyear contract extension.

He will return to the 49ers, where he began his NFL career as a quantitative analyst in 2013. The move will save the Vikings some money as Adofo-Mensah had offset language in his former Vikings contract, according to a league source.

Adofo-Mensah’s duties in San Francisco grew to directing the team’s football research and helping shape the hiring process in 2017 that eventually landed on Lynch, the GM, and head coach Kyle Shanahan; the duo are currently tied for the longest-tenured GM and head coach pairing in the NFL along with the Los Angeles Rams’ Les Snead and Sean McVay and the Kansas City Chiefs’ Brett Veach and Andy Reid (McVay and Veach were also hired in 2017).

Co-owner Mark Wilf, after Adofo-Mensah’s tenure in Minnesota came to an end, said the Vikings “felt a change was necessary” after judging his “body of work” over four seasons. The team watched quarterback Sam Darnold win a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks earlier this month after leaving the Vikings as a free agent a year ago. Adofo-Mensah’s draft record was also poor.

The Vikings might not sign any of his 2022 draft picks to a second contract if wide receiver Jalen Nailor goes elsewhere next month.

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RE: KAM back to 49'ers.... - StickierBuns - 02-25-2026

Nobody recycles more than the NFL.

RE: KAM back to 49'ers.... - purplefaithful - 02-25-2026

Sure, its an olde boys network still too...I wasn't surprised he headed back out west and to 49'ers org specifically.

Like any job in the world, the right fit is critically important. He'll excel leveraging AI and analytics as part of a personnel dept.

RE: KAM back to 49'ers.... - Vanguard83 - 02-25-2026

Wish he would have been hired in the division

RE: KAM back to 49'ers.... - greediron - 02-25-2026

"in a personnel executive role that will be formalized after the NFL draft"

RE: KAM back to 49'ers.... - StickierBuns - 02-25-2026

(02-25-2026, 01:35 PM)greediron Wrote: "in a personnel executive role that will be formalized after the NFL draft"

Its safer that way.

RE: KAM back to 49'ers.... - Norse - 02-26-2026

It didn’t take him long to find work. Which is kind of surprising.

RE: KAM back to 49'ers.... - JimmyinSD - 02-26-2026

(02-26-2026, 07:12 AM)Norse Wrote: It didn’t take him long to find work. Which is kind of surprising.

Note that his role isn't set yet, he could be low man for all we know. This could just be a professional courtesy to a former good soldier so to speak. It makes him look better to other teams that the niners took him back vs him siting home for months and then just forgotten by the league.

RE: KAM back to 49'ers.... - Vikergirl - 02-26-2026

I am not surprised by this

RE: KAM back to 49'ers.... - StickierBuns - 02-26-2026

(02-26-2026, 09:25 AM)Vikergirl Wrote: I am not surprised by this

Me neither. He'll be doing something, but if we're all being honest, GM was WAY outside his wheelhouse. And unfortunately Minnesota paid for it in the short term...yet also overcame some of it.