‘You never want to go full Rams’: How analytics help Vikings' Kwesi Adofo-Mensah embrace uncertainty

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‘You never want to go full Rams’: How analytics help Vikings' Kwesi Adofo-Mensah embrace uncertainty
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At a time when other NFL teams are going for broke in pursuit of a Super Bowl, Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah is taking a decidedly different tack.

The NFL season doesn't start for another couple months, but that doesn't stop diehard bettors from making their picks for MVP, Rookie of the Year and more.EAGAN, Minn. — Kwesi Adofo-Mensah climbs the steps toward a balcony adjacent to the Vikings’ sprawling practice fields, entering the doorway into his glass-paned office. This is headquarters for the 40-year-old general manager to conduct business, but he doesn’t flock to his desk.

. And yet, the Vikings’ shift hasn’t resembled several NFL teams’ recent methodology of change. Despite the NFL’s offseason of seismic quarterback movement, Kirk Cousins remains passer-in-chief. Adofo-Mensah wonders if he made the right decision. “ is more likely to win if you have that quarterback,” Adofo-Mensah said. “It’s very unlikely to have that quarterback.”

“On the math side, I hope it’s not going to sound arrogant, but I speak that better than any other GM,” Adofo-Mensah said. “I don’t know that I speak better than them, but my worst thing is probably better than their worst thing. You know what I mean? So I think my ability to communicate in really every room in the football building makes me unique.

“ would always push that we have to be humble in terms of we’re making an educated guess,” Berry told USA TODAY Sports. “These are all bets. We don’t really know. That quite honestly has allowed us to be a little more flexible on draft day because of that uncertainty.”

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