Details of former Seahawks safety Jamal Adams’ contract with the Titans

Former Seattle Seahawks security Jamal Adams lastly discovered his new staff on Thursday, agreeing to a one-year contract with the Tennessee Titans. Adams was launched by the Seahawks as an anticipated cap casualty again in March, and regardless of studies that Adams and Seattle kept in contact, a reunion clearly by no means materialized.

We’ve the small print on Adams’ Titans contract, and earlier than you go, “Who cares?” although you already clicked on the article, I’ll emphasize that we now have famous the contracts of nearly each outgoing Seattle Seahawks participant from the 2023 roster, and Adams is not any totally different. NFL insider Ari Meirov studies that Adams signed for the veteran minimal, which in Adams’ case is $1.125 million.

Whereas Adams has been within the NFL for seven seasons, he solely has six credited seasons that rely towards the worth of his minimal wage. Beneath Article 26, Part 2 of the Collective Bargaining Settlement (through OverTheCap.com):

For functions of calculating Credited Seasons underneath this Article solely, a participant shall earn one Credited Season for every season throughout which he was on, or ought to have been on, full pay standing for a complete of three or extra common season video games, however which, regardless of the participant’s pay standing, shall not embrace video games for which this participant was on; (i) the Exempt Commissioner Permission Listing; (ii) the Reserve PUP Listing because of a nonfootball damage; (iii) a Membership’s Follow or Developmental Squad; or (iv) a Membership’s Injured Reserve Listing.

That daring emphasis is mine. Adams missed practically all of 2022 whereas on injured reserve attributable to his torn quad, in order that gained’t rely as a credited season. As an alternative of a vet minimal of $1.21 million it’s $1.125 million, and evidently the Titans determined to ensure all of it.

What the Titans can be paying Adams pales compared to how a lot the Seahawks have already paid Adams. With two years left on his contract on the time of his launch, Seattle incurred $20.83 million in lifeless cash. As an alternative of spreading out the cap hit over two seasons, the Seahawks opted towards making Adams a post-June 1 designated minimize, so all of that cash is charged to Seattle’s 2024 cap. This isn’t further cash owed to Adams, however slightly cash that’s been paid that also must be accounted for within the wage cap.

Whereas Adams has his new staff, neither Quandre Diggs nor Adams’ former backup Ryan Neal has signed elsewhere. Diggs was additionally launched as a cap casualty, whereas Neal was not re-signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. One other method to take a look at that is that previous to Thursday, the highest three safeties on the Seahawks protection from 2020 to 2022 have been all free brokers simply two weeks out from coaching camp.