Vikings General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah participated in a radio interview with “Voice of the Vikings” Paul Allen and credited Senior Vice President of Player Personnel Ryan Grigson and the personnel staff for noticing Redmond’s film in late spring.
“I remember he called me and said, ‘I like this guy.’ I think it was late May,” Adofo-Mensah explained. “You have to ask yourself, what’s your standard for bringing people in, because a lot of good players are on teams already, so there’s going to be something there that’s not perfect, not clean, and earlier he had injuries, so you’ve got to understand why he’s available, but ultimately here’s why he might be a good bet.
“And you saw the flashes for an interior guy with burst, his run defense kind of jumped out to me,” Adofo-Mensah added. “That’s the other thing, when you’ve been together for two or three years, and my history with Grigson before, he knows how to communicate with me, makes a cut-up, knows exactly what we look for.
“I’m like, ‘That’s a great decision. Why don’t you go talk to [Defensive Coordinator Brian Flores] and see what he thinks?’ He goes and talks to Flo’ and sees the versatility, and it’s May, there’s 90 people on the roster, and we don’t know what it’s going to be like in December in U.S. Bank [Stadium], but you put your portfolio together with good bets like that, a good risk-reward proposition, and that’s kind of what we’ve done,” he continued. “I’m giving Grigson a lot of credit for that, but that’s my entire staff.”