Ex-Vikings star Chad Greenway dismisses early NFL Draft concerns, sees promise in new leadership

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Minnesota Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has gotten less than raving reviews for his first NFL Draft but for one former star linebacker, one night doesn’t necessarily define a team’s fate, especially as a new — and promising — regime takes over.

Former Minnesota linebacker Chad Greenway, who spent his entire 11-year career with the Vikings, told Fox News Digital in a recent interview that while he too was rather confused with the decision to trade over two picks to NFC North rivals, history has shown that "guys miss on drafts all the time." 

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"There’s a couple of people you can’t trade with in the world, the Lions and the Packers — right, if you’re a Vikings fan. So that trade goes down, and we give up that ticket in the first round and they go get a receiver and now with all that being said we get to go cover that receiver now for the next 10 years which is really interesting."

Chad Greenway #52 of the Minnesota Vikings runs down the sideline after an interception during the first half of the game on November 6, 2016 at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

"The new regime is exciting. I think what you do with Kwesi and with Coach (Kevin) O'Connell is you bring in a new staff that's exciting, that people are really excited to be a part of and be behind, but then it comes with question marks. It comes with question marks in experience and other questions," Greenway continued. "So you go through the draft and, for all intents and purposes, the national pundits have said this was a really