Jordan Addison Accidentally Kept Hanging Up on the Vikings on Draft Night
The Vikings released a 15-minute video on Friday that takes viewers behind the scenes of their draft weekend. It's worth a watch, with interesting details like Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Kevin O'Connell discussing a possible trade in round one and footage from the team's meeting with Jaren Hall at the scouting combine.
The funniest part, though, is first-round pick Jordan Addison accidentally hanging up on various Vikings coaches and staffers multiple times after being picked — and then embarrassedly watching the footage back during the filming of the video.
"Did you know you hung up on a handful of different people during the draft?" a member of the Vikings' content team asked Addison.
"Oh yeah, I heard about that," Addison replied, laughing.
"I'll let you take a look," they replied.
First, after talking to Adofo-Mensah right after being picked, Addison hung up the phone. In his defense, Adofo-Mensah did say "be easy." That left O'Connell talking to no one. He quickly had someone call Addison back.
"Cause look, they was saying it on the TV and I'm thinking I gotta get off the phone so I can go cause they was kinda like rushing it, so I hung up, I started cheering and everything," Addison explained. "I got up outta there."
O'Connell threw some playful jabs at Adofo-Mensah after it happened. "Can you not hang up on our draft picks before I get to say hello to them?" he said.
Then, in his conversation with O'Connell, the head coach's message ended with telling Addison to go celebrate with his family. When O'Connell passed the phone to offensive coordinator Wes Phillips, Addison was no longer there.
And it happened a third time, too. After Addison talked to wide receivers coach Keenan McCardell, a Vikings staffer tried to ask him a question, but again, Addison had hung up a bit too early.
"I hung up on like five people," Addison said. "Yeah, my bad. I'm sorry, y'all."
Funny stuff.
Again, the full video is worth a watch.
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