The Tennessee Titans were one of the NFL’s biggest spenders in free agency, adding the likes of wideouts Calvin Ridley and Tyler Boyd and former Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl running back Tony Pollard.
The team was also busy bringing in big names on defense, signing former Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Chidobe Awuzie and trading for Kansas City Chiefs star cornerback L’Jarius Sneed.
Tennessee added another piece to their secondary on Thursday, agreeing to a one-year contract with safety Jamal Adams.
The LSU product spent the first three seasons of his career with the New York Jets after Gang Green selected him as the sixth overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. Adams made back-to-back Pro Bowls in 2018 and 2019 and was named first-team All-Pro in the latter campaign before being traded to the Seattle Seahawks in July 2020.
The 28-year-old made his third and most recent Pro Bowl in 2020 despite missing four games due to a groin injury. Adams missed five more contests during the 2021 campaign with a torn labrum and suffered a season-ending torn quad tendon in Week 1 of the 2022 season.
He missed the first three contests of 2023 while recovering from the 2022 ailment and suffered a concussion in his return to the field in Week 4. Adams was evaluated on the sidelines and told he was out for the remainder of the game before shouting angrily at the doctor who examined him before members of the Seahawks separated the two.
Later in the week, he apologized on social media, writing that the doctor “did everything right” and wasn’t punished by the NFL.
Adams had a similar incident later in the season, however,
According to a report by Jonathan Jones of the NFL on CBS, the league said in a letter to Adams that he “interfered with orderly administration of the game when the unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant (UNC) was walking with Seahawks wide receiver Jake Bobo to the blue medical tent for evaluation of a concussion.”
Per the report, Bobo had just caught a 20-yard pass from quarterback Geno Smith but then received a “big hit” by Bengals safety Dax Hill, resulting in a penalty. The wideout was removed from the Week 6 contest for evaluation but passed the check and returned to the game.
Jones added that a league source told him that Adams wasn’t considered a “repeat offender” and the $50,000 he was docked doesn’t “take into account the events on Oct. 2.”
According to a report by ESPN’s Turron Davenport, Adams is expected to compete with Amani Hooker and Elijah Molden for one of the team’s two starting safety spots this summer.