The Seahawks and Jamal Adams have agreed to terms on a four-year, $70MM deal (Twitter link via NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport). The contract makes Adams the NFL’s highest-paid safety on a per-year basis with $38MM in guarantees. 
The Seahawks traded for Adams last summer, sending two first-round picks, a third-round pick, and fellow safety Bradley McDougald to the Jets. The deal brought them a fourth-round pick in addition to one of the game’s most exciting young talents.
Adams – who won’t turn 26 until October – has been a certified star since his rookie season. Between 2018 and 2019, only Vikings standout Anthony Harris graded out higher than Adams at safety, according to Pro Football Focus. Eddie Jackson (Bears) was No. 3 during that stretch, and Adams has now leapfrogged him by a wide margin in earnings.
In 2019, Adams earned his first ever First-Team All-Pro nod while notching 75 tackles, seven passes defensed, 6.5 sacks, and a defensive touchdown. Last year, he missed four games with a groin injury, but still showed his mettle as a dangerous playmaker. He notched 9.5 sacks in just 12 games, the most any defensive back has ever posted in a single season. And, with 83 overall stops including eleven tackles for loss, Adams earned his third straight Pro Bowl nod.
Previously, Adams was set to enter his “walk year” and make less than $10MM. Of course, the Seahawks would have been able to franchise tag him next spring, which hurt his leverage somewhat. Ultimately, the two sides reached a logical compromise – Adams gets his mega-deal and a chance to cash in all over again during his prime. The Seahawks, meanwhile, managed to get him for slightly less than Bobby Wagner‘s $18MM-AAV deal.
Blitz boy and Landon lazy Collins are the two most payed safeties lmaooooooooo
That’s the way the cookie crumbles. Next year it will be some other shmucks, and the following year, and so on and so on.
Seahawks traded so much draft capital for a mediocre coverage safety who gets sacks then overpaid him. Meanwhile the Rams traded similar draft capital for a real lockdown corner. No wonder LA owns them in the McVay era
Hmmmm…. Should I trust these posts or Pro Football Focus on truly how good Jamal is???
saying adams is a mediocre coverage safety is like saying Luke Keuchly was a mediocre blitzer. Its not what he is meant for and is not the role he fills.
Adams is more a field general and play disrupter. He tends to rush the back field and is plays more upfield than a normal safety serving between the secondary and linebackers.
Kam Chancellor was a mediocre coverage safety, but Seattle fans liked him just fine. Not like their paying him to be the deep man in coverage. Dude plays on the edge, and in the box.
Adams was never poor in coverage until last year when he had the groin and shoulder issues that required offseason surgery
I went back to 2016 not sure when McVay started but the ownership you talk of is 1 game. Yes LAStLA has beat Seattle 1 more time in that era. A quick look further and it was still close not sure who had more wins but it was close.
You talk about us getting Adams how many games is your paper mache QB going to miss. Coming from the worst div to the best. That Div used to be the black and blue div now it is pink and purple. I guess we will see how the two games go this year. Probably a split unless your QB doesn’t last long enough to play us. I am not wishing injury on anyone. Detroit was my team before the Hawks dad was from there so I watched a lot of his games. We have 300lb LM that are faster than him.
Well since he is a strong safety coverage isn’t really what he is paid to do with the exception of the TE or RB depending on what the coverage is. His job is to be in the box and he is one of the best in the league at that.
So with the Adams drama concluding it’s back to updates of Rodgers showing the world what a great GM he could be 🙁
Nah. Back to Duane Brown wanting to be extended until he’s 45.
Russell Wilson will have taken about 1000 sacks by that time.
What drama? Team and player never said a word. Just fake news media did
I also said in both posts I made it would get done. Not sure what the money is but it looks like Seattle’s last offer. I would be shocked if he makes as much as Wagner and he shouldn’t.
Brady Henderson of ESPN has the total at $72MM matching Bobby Wagner’s $18MM AAV.
$70M with ability to earn as much as $72M.
I’m not saying he’s not a good player, but he doesn’t cover because he can’t for long stretches of a game. I think it’s great he’s used as a hybrid safety/linebacker. But you can’t really defend that he doesn’t cover well. Calling him a box safety is an overstatement. He’s essentially a LB.
Wrong on many levels
He’s a strong safety not a free safety. He’s supposed to be playing in the box and he excels at that.