The Washington Commanders added another familiar face to Adam Peters’ front office on Tuesday, hiring former Vikings assistant general manager Demitrius Washington as a senior personnel executive.
The move comes after Scott Fitterer’s departure from the organization. Fitterer, who had been brought in by the Commanders in 2024 to work on Peters’ first staff, left the franchise to join the sports agency Athletes First.
Washington arrives in Washington after four seasons in Minnesota, where he most recently served as assistant general manager. Before that, he was the Vikings’ vice president of football operations from 2022 to 2024. Peters and Washington already know each other from their time together with the 49ers in San Francisco, giving the Commanders’ GM another trusted voice in the building.
The timing also fits the way NFL front offices tend to work: connections matter, and people often land quickly when they’ve already built relationships with the right decision-makers. Washington had been working under former Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, but after Minnesota’s disappointing 2025 season, the team decided in January to move on from Adofo-Mensah. The Vikings hired Nolan Teasley as their new GM in early June and began reshaping the personnel department around his preferences, which led to Washington being let go recently.
Fitterer’s path to Washington was a long one before his exit. He began in the NFL as a scout with the Giants in 1998, then joined the Seahawks as a scout in 2001 and climbed the ladder over the next two decades. He was Seattle’s director of college scouting when the team won a Super Bowl, later became vice president of football operations in 2020, and then spent three seasons as the Panthers’ general manager from 2021 to 2023.
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