Vikings inquiring about Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert surfaced that general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has since pushed back on.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported roughly 45 minutes into the draft broadcast that “in recent weeks, both the Patriots and Vikings reached out to the Chargers to see if they had any interest in trading QB Justin Herbert, per league sources.”
“The answer was, very quickly, ‘a flat no’,” Schefter wrote.
Adofo-Mensah addressed the rumor in his post-Day 1 news conference after the Vikings landed Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy 10th overall and Alabama edge rusher Dallas Turner at No. 17.
“I wish I could tell you how much joy we get from seeing the stuff that gets written,” Adofo-Mensah said of the rumor on April 25. “These aren’t things that ever come out of this building, man. I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t know where this stuff comes from. Sometimes it works out in our favor, but — I can’t even respond (to that).
