On Wednesday, June 7 -- The phone calls started almost before the moving trucks left Minneapolis. Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, fired as the Minnesota Vikings' general manager in late January after four seasons that ended without a playoff win, had barely cleared security at the airport when the San Francisco 49ers came calling. By February 24, he was back where his NFL career began.

his title. Adofo-Mensah will serve as vice president of personnel and strategy, NBC Sports reported, a role that slots him into the organization's analytics and roster-construction framework he helped build over seven years before leaving for Cleveland.

#49ers GM John Lynch says former Vikings GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah is back in the fold in the personnel department. He'...