Kwesi Adofo-Mensah Prefers Thoughtful &…

Cleveland hired Adofo-Mensah as its Vice President of Football Operations in 2020, a role he held for the past two seasons.

And while Adofo-Mensah may have had a number-based background in San Francisco, he was able to form a more well-rounded approach during his time with the Browns under General Manager Andrew Berry.

Essentially working as Berry’s right-hand man, Adofo-Mensah was directeded to learn and expand his original skill set.

“He pushed me, he didn’t let me coast. He didn’t let me do that stuff for the whole time I was there. He was training me for this day,” Adofo-Mensah told Vikings.com. “We had people there that did my [previous] job, so he allowed me to kind of use my skill set of developing, but also my core functions and help them grow. But really, he was like, ‘You’re going to watch players, you’re going to write reports, do all those things. And when you talk in meetings, you can bridge what you’re seeing with your love language of analytics. I want your core foundation to be that.’

“He had me in meetings; I’d be out at practice every day talking to players. He pushed me,” Adofo-Mensah continued. “You’ll hear me talk about him all the time, but everybody needs somebody in their life that believes in them more than they believe in themselves almost. He’s that person for me, especially in an NFL sense. Man, he’s been training me for this day since I got there.

“Some days when you’re in a discussion and it’s a thing where, ‘This is 50-50,’ he’d look at you and say, ‘Hey, you’re running the team, what do you do?’ ” Adofo-Mensah added. “You kind of want to take this rep off but you can’t. Again, he was so diligent. As busy as that job is, he’s doing that for me and other people there. He’s an incredible person.”