{"id":906368,"date":"2026-05-31T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/906368\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:33:18","slug":"report-minnesota-vikings-hire-seattle-seahawks-nolan-teasley-as-new-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/906368\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Minnesota Vikings hire Seattle Seahawks\u2019 Nolan Teasley as new GM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vikings have \u201cagreed to terms on a contract with Seahawks assistant GM Nolan Teasley\u201d as the team\u2019s new GM. Teasley has \u201crisen through the Seahawks\u2019 front office\u201d through a 13-year run that spanned both of the team\u2019s Super Bowl titles. He will partner with coach Kevin O\u2019Connell and EVP\/Football Operations Rob Brzezinski, who will \u201cremain in his role with the team after interviewing for the GM job.\u201d The Vikings finished in-person interviews with a \u201cgroup of five finalists this past week,\u201d wrapping things up with Broncos Assistant GM Reed Burckhardt on Wednesday and Rams Assistant GM John McKay on Thursday. O\u2019Connell and Brzezinski will \u201cretain strong voices in the team\u2019s decisions\u201d (MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE, 5\/30<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Many believed Brzezinski \u201cdeserved the opportunity.\u201d Others suggested the team would \u201cbenefit the most from infusing a tenured front office with a well-regarded external voice.\u201d Neither Vikings owner the Wilf family nor the team\u2019s chosen firm, TurnkeyZRG, \u201ctipped their hand.\u201d Sources said that Teasley \u201cwon out because of his \u2018strong football acumen.\u2019\u201d A bevy of NFL evaluators and agents \u201cpraised Minnesota\u2019s choice.\u201d Brzezinski, \u201cwho deftly managed the team through a newsy stretch this spring, will continue to offer his salary cap expertise and negotiating savvy\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 5\/30<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vikings have \u201cagreed to terms on a contract with Seahawks assistant GM Nolan Teasley\u201d as the team\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7,10578,233,259,2529,6,234],"class_list":["post-906368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-vikings","tag-football","tag-leadership","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl","tag-vikings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116670392152521785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}