Rodney Adams sat down inside a Winter Park team meeting room and looked up at himself.
Mike Priefer, the Vikings special teams coordinator, queued up video of a 97-yard kickoff return Adams scored against Navy. Adams was at Vikings headquarters for an April job interview — a pre-draft top 30 visit — when the mood tightened for a brief second.
“I said, ‘You know I’m a Naval Academy graduate, right?’ And I’m dead serious,” Priefer recalled. “We don’t know each other yet. He looked at me like, is this guy serious? Deadpanned, it was beautiful. I started laughing and, of course, he started laughing.