Titans' Jamal Adams roster move opens the door for unneeded speculation
The Jamal Adams experiment is off to a very rocky start for the Tennessee Titans. The team announced that they had placed Adams on the "Reserve Non-Football Injury" list Saturday afternoon, meaning he will miss at least the next 4 games before being eligible to return. Fans have known Adams is perpetually banged-up at this […]
The Jamal Adams experiment is off to a very rocky start for the Tennessee Titans.
The team announced that they had placed Adams on the "Reserve Non-Football Injury" list Saturday afternoon, meaning he will miss at least the next 4 games before being eligible to return.
Fans have known Adams is perpetually banged-up at this point in his career since long before the Titans signed him, so a stint on IR wouldn't have come as a surprise. But being placed on the Non-Football Injury list certainly raises eyebrows.
Shortly after the announcement of his designation, ESPN's Turron Davenport shared some sourced insight into Adams' situation with the team:
This appears to be what many foresaw as the worst-case situation with Adams. In fairness to the Titans, it's a very low-stakes situation as far as "worst-case' goes. They signed him right before training camp this summer to a one year, veteran-minimum contract. If he ends up being a total non-factor for the team this year, the Adams experiment ends up being mostly no harm, no foul.
Before being placed on the NFI list, Adams recorded 20 total snaps for Tennessee's first four games. He came into the regular season still ramping-up from offseason rehab and a recent return to the practice field, and so he didn't see the field until Week 2. In that game against the Jets, he played just two snaps. In Week 3 against the Packers, his coaches worked him in more with 17 total snaps.
Where things seemingly came off the tracks was in Week 4 at Miami, when fans (and, it seems, Adams) expected to see him continue to be worked into the plan. Instead, he ended up playing just a single down in the team's first win. And based on Davenport's reporting, his discontent with that involvement may very well be why he finds himself sidelined for at least the next month.
Ran Carthon chose to take a flier on a player who had his best days working with Titans DC Dennard Wilson when they were with the Jets. This is the nature of a flier pickup. Sometimes nothing comes of it. We'll see if Adams can return to the team and contribute in the back-half of the season, but all indications so far point to that not being in the cards.
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