The Minnesota Vikings next GM might be currently working for the Buffalo Bills.
Tom Pelissero reported Wednesday morning that Minnesota has requested a GM interview with Gray, who’s been the Bills assistant GM since May 2025 after spending three years as Buffalo’s director of player personnel.
For Gray, there’s a clear Vikings connection. He spent 11 years in Minnesota as a scout before being hired by the Bills in 2017 as the team’s director of college scouting.
Gray will be the first interview in the Vikings’
hunt for a new GM. Interim Rob Brzezinski is also considered a candidate.
This is hardly the first rodeo of this kind for Gray. He interviewed for the Chargers GM job in 2024 and the Titans GM just last year.
As a minority candidate, if Gray were to hired as the Vikings GM, the Bills would be awarded a compensatory third-round pick in the 2027 and 2028 NFL Drafts, per the league’s 2020 Resolution JC-2A.
The Lions received a third-round pick (No. 100 overall) in the 2026 draft for the Jets hiring of head coach Aaron Glenn who was formerly Detroit’s defensive coordinator.
The Los Angeles Rams received third-round picks in the 2024 and 2025 drafts for the Falcons’ head-coach hiring of Raheem Morris in 2024.
Also, if Gray is hired by the Vikings, it would mark the fourth assistant GM hired away from the Bills during the Brandon Beane era, joining Dan Morgan, Joe Schoen, and Brian Gaine, the latter of which has since returned to the Buffalo organization and would be the most likely candidate to assume the assistant GM role.
