What is the strategy of the Vikings with limited resources?

Eagan, Minn. – The design of the Minnesota Vikings can be boiled down to one sentence: The oldest team in the NFL in 2024 has the fewest resources in the league to become younger in 2025.

The Vikings go to the draft of the next week, in which he has a league depth of four picks. If you do not acquire additional tips on the trade, according to ESPN research, you will be selected the 20th team that has selected four or fewer players since the design of the draft in 1994. Eight-ninety percent of the teams made more selection in this 30-year period.

The deficit is self -indebted and is largely the result of two trades that the Vikings made last season to acquire the Linebacker Dallas Turner. But it is also a trend that includes several years. If you meet your four picks as planned next week, the Vikings have a total of 27 design selection since General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah’s arrival in 2022-in this period is bound to the second-less total in the NFL.

“These are things that we have planned over the past few years and of which we feel safe,” said Adofo-Mensah on Thursday.

Adofo-Mensah has already been immersed in his 2026 pool after he probably acted the picks with the fourth round and in the sixth round last season to acquire the left Tackle-Tackle Cam Robinson and the return of CAM Akers. Neither stay in the team.

The question arises: What should the unusual approach of the Vikings be made for the design, which NFL teams consider the life elixir of the squad building? The situation and the greater performance of Minnesota in the last three seasons have been a question of great weight in the team facility.

The owners Zygi and Mark Wilf have not yet completed a contract extension for Adofo-Mensah, whose deal has expired in 12 months, although the team published the sixth-best profit percentage (.667) of the NFL during their term. Bad results of the design have made the team a massive foray in the last two offsose a free agency, and the team committed itself to a league of $ 315 million for 2025 in the amount of $ 315 million, so that the Kaum Management system no longer counts on insurance.

Your roster also had the highest average age, based on weighted snapshots, and it is unlikely that the ranking has been signed or signed again this spring after being at least 30 years old.

Adofo-Mensah is of the opinion that his activity of his free agent opened the options in the design, and on Thursday emphasized his wish to “be in a place where we are proactive, not reactive; However, designs are filled with uncertainty, and the likelihood that the effects will increase the players due to the total number of selected players.

This is examining the draft of Adofo-Mensahs 2024 draft draft. For the first time, the Vikings sent Houston Texans their picks of the second and sixth round in 2024 and a second election in 2025 to achieve the No. 23 selection. Then in 2025 they used a 2024 fifth-round pick to exchange No. 23 against No. 17 with the Jacksonville Jaguars. (They also received a 2024 seventh round from the Texans.)

In total, it took six draft picks to acquire gymnasts, calculated by ESPN analytics, and twice as high as the value of No. 17 selection.

At that time, Adofo-Mensah joked his analysis background as the “table and calculator” aside. Sometimes he said: “From there you have to go out, take off your Clark Kent glasses and simply have a championship -and swing for a great player.”

Turner’s season as a rookie was blocked by two Pro Bowl Edge -Rushers, Jonathan Greenard and Andrew van Ginkel. Turner played 26.8% of the snapshots, a speed of less than 52 other defensive beginners in the NFL last season.

Adofo-Mensah, who was asked to look at the approach again on Thursday, said that he was not a regret. He said he had acquired the No. 23 selection to avoid a “weapon-to-head moment” on the draft day when the Vikings tried to ensure that they could design a quarterback. When they did not need this selection to secure the quarterback JJ McCarthy in 10th place, said Adofo-Mensah that he had concentrated on Turner because he did not know whether he would be positioned in the future years to design a player that the team considered talented.

“I’m pretty tough for myself, I would say,” said Adofo-Mensah. “If you try self -improvement and stick to this standard, we all have this little voice that says: ‘We are good enough.’ And I’m not afraid of questioning this voice from time to time in order to have really hard.

“Ultimately, we don’t know how this answer will work, but if we look back on it, we feel good with this exact approach and this process of thinking.”

Turner’s modest contributions as a rookie illustrated another trend that cannot be ignored. The only influence that the Vikings have moved in in the last three seasons is the recipient Jordan Addison in 2023. McCarthy could join this list as soon as this season can be seen, and Turner probably seems to get more chances. Cornerback Mekhi Blackmon, a selection in the third round, which missed 2024 in 2023, could resume a key role in 2025.

The success of 2024 Draft will ride with the development of McCarthy and Turner. So far, however, the Vikings have only reached 107 starts from the players between 2022 and 24. This is the second lowest in the league.

Regardless of this, the job of Adofo-Mensah does not appear to be threatened, especially in comparison to the urgency that the Vikings showed in the new signing of coach Kevin O’Connell in January. Mark Wilf only said on March 31 that there was “very, very positive conversations” about Adofo-Mensah’s future. When asked whether an agreement is something he wants to achieve, Wilf said: “Yes, that’s it.”

Wilf admitted that “the freelance agency has become an important part of the dynamics of the team structure” that the proper evaluation of ratings lasts two or three years.

“KWESI is part of our football leadership,” said Wilf. “We feel very good in relation to the movements that he made in terms of positioning, together with coach O’Connell and (Executive Director of Football Operations Rob Brzezinski) with regard to our position of the salary limit, our position and our potential.