The Vikings made a number of staff moves this past week. They’ve got one season under their belt with new head coach Kevin O’Connell and new general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, and Minnesota continues to make adjustments to the front office.
The first such adjustment was the release of a longtime staffer in director of football quantitative methods and pro scout Scott Kuhn. According to Seth Walder of ESPN, the two parties decided to part ways after 16 years together. Kuhn first came to Minnesota in 2007, following former general manager Rick Spielman in his move from Miami. The former Dolphins staffer worked his way through multiple roles in Minnesota before finally landing his most recent role back in 2016.
Here are few other front office moves from around the NFC, mostly coming out of the Twin Cities:
- In further efforts to shape the front office to his liking, Adofo-Mensah brought a big piece over from Cleveland in Sam DeLuca, according to Neil Stratton of SucceedinFootball.com. DeLuca had been with the Browns since 2013, serving mostly in the role of assistant director of pro scouting. He also spent some time with the Eagles before he joined Cleveland. In Minnesota, DeLuca will claim a role as the Vikings’ senior assistant director of pro personnel.
- The Vikings will reportedly also be adding a new scout, according to Stratton. Minnesota is poaching Matt Kelly from the Senior Bowl staff, where he served as director of football operations. With the Vikings, Kelly will be the team’s new West Coast area scout.
- Lastly, the Saints also parted ways with a longtime staffer, according to Jeff Duncan of The Times-Picayune, letting go of a top analytics researcher in Ryan Herman. Herman joined the Saints back in 2017 after working with New Orleans’ assistant general manager Jeff Ireland in Miami, when Ireland was the Dolphins’ general manager. Herman’s seven years in Miami culminated in his role as the director of football administration before taking the job in New Orleans. After six years with the Saints as the team’s head of football research and strategy, New Orleans allowed Herman’s contract to expire.
So exactly what does the
senior assistant director of pro personnel
DO ??
For that matter what about the:
Junior assistant director of pro personnel
Senior associate director of pro personnel
Junior associate director of pro personnel
Senior associate assistant director of pro personnel
Junior associate assistant director of pro personnel
Senior Assistant associate director of pro personnel
Junior Assistant associate director of pro personnel
Probably be friends with the right people and talk about football as any group of young to old men would
He directs the Junior Assistant Director of Pro Personnel, as you said.
He also directs the Sophomore Director of Pro Personnel, Freshman Director of Pro Personnel, and answers to the Alumni Association Assistant of Pro Personnel, who also gets calls for donations for the school charity drive every two weeks.
Very astute !!
Did I fail to reference:
Master assistant director of pro personnel
Professor assistant director of pro personnel
And all the other related derivatives of those….
Basically, everyone who accepts a executive position begins by hiring a few disposable staffers that can be used as “fall guys”. These staffers receive a directorship of some kind to make it look like they are actually important to the organization.