BREAKING: Tennessee Titans Make Late Free Agency Splash With Defensive Addition

According to Tennessee Titans reporter Turron Davenport of ESPN, safety Jamal Adams and the Titans agreed to terms on a one-year deal.

The Titans will be Adams’ third NFL. He was drafted by the New York Jets in 2017 before becoming a member of the Seattle Seahawks in 2020.

Jamal Adams is reuniting with a defensive backs coach on the Tennessee Titans

Adams will be rejoining forces with Titans defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson upon joining Tennessee. Wilson was the New York Jets defensive backs coach when Adams had two Pro Bowl seasons in 2018 and 2019.

In 2018, Adams was a second-team All-Pro and in 2019 Adams was a first-team All-Pro. His Pro Bowl selection and second-team All-Pro selection in 2020 with the Seattle Seahawks was the only time Adams earned postseason accolades outside of his time with the Jets.

During those seasons Adams was a game-wrecker from the safety position. He was lifted as a safety, but his ability to play at almost any level made him one of the most unique defensive players in the game. He amassed 21.5 sacks as a safety over his first four years in the NFL.

His ability to make plays all over the field made him a hot commodity when the Seahawks sent a pair of first-round picks to the Jets for him.

Jamal Adams sack of a blitz >>> pic.twitter.com/fysZRxTlMt

— Trevor Bond (@bondtrevorbond) September 13, 2020

Going through the #Seahawks film against #WashingtonFootball. Watch Jamal Adams. His pursuit is INCREDIBLE. Saves 1st down run!

– Adams carries #2 up seam, while spying QB
– Haskins is under pressure, looking to scramble
– JA chases him ALL the way across the field for the sack pic.twitter.com/qhBrYa4PBn

— Samuel Gold (@SamuelRGold) December 22, 2020

Adams’ best statistical year outside of sacks, 2018, saw him force three fumbles on 115 tackles with an interception to boot. The most sacks he ever amassed in a single season was 9.5, which came in his first year with the Seahawks in 2020.

Jamal Adams is hoping for a career resurgence with the Tennessee Titans

Despite coming into the league and immediately becoming a game-wrecking safety, Adams struggled to produce after his first season in Seattle.

Adams was able to earn some postseason honors in 2020 despite playing just 12 games. He has yet to play in more than 12 games since 2019.

Adams played in one single game in 2022 and he played in just nine games in 2023. Adams had 48 tackles and seven tackles for loss in just over half a season with the Seahawks in 2023. Adams hasn’t recorded a sack since 2020.

Adams was only 28 during his most recent season with the Seahawks meaning there is plenty of time for him to have a career resurgence from an age standpoint, should he be able to stay healthy.

Jamal Adams brings controversy to the Tennessee Titans

The Titans aren’t only taking a risk on a player who hasn’t seen success on the field since 2020, but they are taking a risk on a player who has drawn off-field attention in recent years.

Adams went viral for attacking a former Jets beat writer on social media. Adams gave up a game-winning touchdown to Dallas Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson and responded to the aforementioned beat writer’s posting of the play by zooming in on a picture of his wife and posting that picture with the caption “Yikes.”

Adams later deleted the post, but doubled down and showed no remorse for attacking the writer’s wife on social media in a quote from the Seattle Times.

“At the end of the day, he [the writer] knows from my previous history that we don’t like each other, he’s been going on saying a couple things since the trade [in 2020 from the Jets to the Seahawks], and obviously it’s been happening before that, and I just got fed up with it. And so I responded. My ultimate goal, whether it was uncalled for or not, my ultimate goal was to get him to not respond to me anymore. So that was the key, and that’s what I hope it is.”

“It’s always the athlete that crossed the line when he responds, but at the end of the day, disrespect is disrespect, however you want to take it. I responded. I knew when I did hit that tweet, I wasn’t in it to win it. At the end of the day it was to get him to understand to leave me the hell alone.”

Adams also responded to a New York Post reporter who did not mince words when it came to what he thought about Adams in the same Seattle Times article.

“I’ve covered a lot of players through the years. Never met any who was more of a phony than Jamal Adams. I always thought he was a bad guy. Today he proved he is even worse than I thought,” said the New York Post reporter.

Adams responded to that post with comments directed at the reporter’s appearance along with attacking the reporter’s ability to do their job.

“Ahhh and here comes Mr. Potato head. … Truth be told, I do not care. I do not like you. Never liked you. You’re terrible at your job. You do not know me outside the game of football,” Adams typed.

Adams similarly showed no remorse when asked about the post in the article from the Seattle Times.

“He’s another one. Do not like. We’ve never liked each other. We’ve had history. They know, just as well as I know, at the end of the day, hey you responded to something that was not a part of y’alls team, and you obviously had something personal versus me. So hey, when others go low, I went lower.”

The Titans, who are only giving Adams a one-year deal, are hoping the early-career version of Adams will be able to contribute to their new regime under new head coach Brian Callahan.

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