The Tennessee Titans bolstered its secondary on Thursday, as veteran security Jamal Adams agreed to a one-year deal to play in Nashville in 2024.
ESPN first reported the deal, and the Titans introduced it later within the day.
Adams spent the previous 4 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, however he was launched on March 5 and has been sitting within the free agent pool ever since.
Tennessee does have Amani Hooker and Elijah Molden on its roster already at security, however Adams is anticipated to compete for a type of beginning jobs later this month when coaching camp begins.
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Adams, a seven-year veteran, was as soon as the league’s highest-paid security after he signed a four-year, $70 million extension with the Seahawks after the New York Jets traded him in 2020.
The Jets acquired two first-round picks from Seattle for Adams, who was coming off back-to-back All-Pro seasons with New York.
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Adams’ defensive backs coach with the Jets in these seasons, Dennard Wilson, is on Tennessee’s workers.
Adams’ tenure in Seattle began off with a bang in 2020, as he had a career-high 9.5 sacks over 12 video games and made second-team All-Pro and one more Pro Bowl.
Jamal Adams of the Seattle Seahawks earlier than the Ravens sport at M&T Bank Stadium on Nov. 5, 2023, in Baltimore. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)
But Adams’ manufacturing has plummeted since that season, with accidents enjoying a significant function.
Adams performed 12 video games once more in 2021, however the 2022 season opener noticed him tear his quadriceps tendon in his left leg, which ended his marketing campaign. It even carried over into the 2023 season, as he missed the primary three video games coping with rehab.
Once he was lastly in a position to get again on the sector, Adams didn’t look the identical final season, totaling 48 tackles and two passes defended over 9 video games, and the Seahawks ultimately made the choice to close him down in December.
At one level, Adams, the sixth total decide by the Jets in 2017 out of LSU, even admitted that he considered retiring from soccer.
Jamal Adams of the Seattle Seahawks warms up for the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium on Nov. 30, 2023, in Arlington, Texas. (Ryan Kang/Getty Images)
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But Adams will get one other alternative to show he nonetheless has elite expertise on the security place with the Titans.
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