While a lot of the focus on the Minnesota Vikings’ this past week has been on the field, and with good reason, the man that perhaps played the biggest role in putting it all together has finally gotten a little recognition of his own.
Rick Spielman, the Vikings’ General Manager, has been named the 2017 NFL Executive of the Year by the folks from Pro Football Weekly.
As the article from Eric Edholm points out, there are only nine GMs in the NFL that have been in their jobs longer than Spielman, who was named the team’s primary General Manager in 2012 (after the “Triangle of Authority” or the “Rhombus of Reason” or whatever other configurations the Vikings tried).