Teasley Moves Vikings to Cut 4 Veteran Staffers
The vikings cut four veteran front office staffers on Thursday after Nolan Teasley arrived as general manager. The moves leave openings in the personnel department and mark the first visible reshaping of the staff under his watch.
Demitrius Washington, Jamaal Stephenson, Pat Roberts and Salli Clavelle were the four staffers moved out. Teasley had said last week, "I haven’t been here to assess the people who are here" and added, "But I know there’s a lot of strong evaluators and a really strong football evaluation (team) in place. So, I would leave it at that."
Washington, Stephenson, Roberts, Clavelle
Washington had been hired by the team and had emerged as a conduit between the front office and coaching staff in San Francisco. He approached the Vikings about pursuing other opportunities and was granted approval, a detail that separates his exit from the other three departures.
Stephenson had been with the Vikings since 2002, when he joined as a college scout. He rose to director of college scouting in 2009, then became the team’s co-director of player personnel in 2021 before moving into the senior personnel executive role.
Teasley’s first staff shift
Roberts was initially hired as a national scout before becoming assistant director of college scouting in 2022. Clavelle came to Minnesota in 2023 after working as a college scout with the 49ers, and Washington and Clavelle were both hired by Adofo-Mensah.
The departures differ from the route taken when the Vikings hired Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, when the team preferred him to maintain the structure of the previous staff. Under Teasley, the front office now has room for outside additions, including the possibility of another assistant general manager because other teams usually do not block candidates for that title.
For a Vikings front office that changed at the top last week, Thursday’s move showed the new general manager is not waiting long to redraw the decision-making map. The next step is filling the vacancies he just created.
