Jets reportedly trade star safety Jamal Adams to the Seahawks
The Jets received first-round picks in the 2021 and 2022 NFL Drafts plus a third-round pick and safety Bradley McDougald.
The Jets have finally given in to Jamal Adams’s demand.
New York shipped the star safety and a fourth-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft to the Seattle Seahawks for their first-round picks in the 2021 and 2022 NFL Drafts plus a third-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft and safety Bradley McDougald, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Adams has been the subject of trade rumors going back to the trade deadline during the 2019 season. He voiced his displeasure toward the Jets when reports surfaced, saying “the Rams don’t take calls on Aaron Donald…the Patriots don’t take calls on Tom Brady. That’s where I hold myself, in that regard.”
“The Rams don’t take calls on Aaron Donald…the Patriots don’t take calls on Tom Brady. That’s where I hold myself, in that regard” – @TheAdamsEra on the trade rumors pic.twitter.com/b1jHonkelC
— Jets Videos (@snyjets) October 30, 2019
The saga died down when the Jets decided to not trade Adams and Adams said he was still excited to be a Jet. However, it picked back up again this off-season when it was reported that Adams would skip the virtual voluntary offseason program without a contract extension. After the Jets picked up his fifth-year option on his rookie contract in April, Adams said in an Instagram comment in June that the Jets were doing “A lot of talk no action” in talks for his extension.
Nearly a week after Adams voiced his displeasure, he reportedly demanded a trade from the Jets, ending a long Instagram comment by saying “Maybe it’s time to move on!” Adams reportedly gave the Jets seven teams he’d liked to be traded to, which included the Seahawks, but the team did not plan to trade him at the time, according to ESPN.
On June 21, a few days after Adams reportedly made the request to leave New York, a video of him saying that he was “trying” to join his hometown Dallas Cowboys surfaced.
Adams dialed up the heat again on the Jets Friday by telling the New York Daily News that he feels head coach Adam Gase wasn’t “the right leader for this organization to reach the Promised Land.”
His attack on Gase came a couple of days after he attacked Jets owner and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom Woody Johnson on Twitter in response to a report that alleged Johnson of making racist and sexist remarks. “We need the RIGHT people at the top. Wrong is wrong!” Adams wrote in the tweet.
We need the RIGHT people at the top. Wrong is wrong! https://t.co/iMpPfHzRV9
— Jamal Adams (@Prez) July 22, 2020
Adams has already received welcomes from his new team. Russell Wilson tweeted “Let’s get it!!!” to Adams’ Twitter handle in one tweet.
The trade seemed to displease Jets running back Le’Veon Bell.
“ppl do all the hootin & hollerin to get you brought in, just to leave,” Bell wrote in a tweet minutes after the trade was reported. “lol like people weird yooo, the internet got these dudes doin whatever for attention, even when they tell you sh*t they don’t believe themselves”
ppl do all the hootin & hollerin to get you brought in, just to leave…lol like people weird yooo, the internet got these dudes doin whatever for attention, even when they tell you sh*t they don’t believe themselves
— Le’Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) July 25, 2020
Adams made first-team All-Pro in 2019 after he was named to the second team in 2018. He’s also played in the Pro Bowl the last two seasons, recording two interceptions, five forced fumbles, and nine sacks over that span.
His new team is scheduled to host the Jets on Dec. 13.
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