Former Minnesota Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah is standing by his decision to let Sam Darnold go.
The Vikings announced Friday that the team was firing Adofo-Mensah as GM, a role he had held since January 2022. The 44-year-old faced reporters at a press conference shortly after his departure was announced.
One reporter asked Adofo-Mensah to share his view on the team faltering after moving on from Darnold after the 2024 season. Adofo-Mensah admitted that it was a call that kept him up at night, but one he upholds given the information he had at the time.
“You’re trying to make sure you don’t lock yourselves into what you did and thinking that it’s always right,” Adofo-Mensah said, via Yahoo Sports’ Jack Baer. “And so there are those nights you wake up and stare at the ceiling and ask yourself. I always go back to the process and what we thought at the time. It’s easier to and be revisionist and results-based, but going to think through what we had at the time, I still understand why we did what we did.”