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New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas said earlier this offseason that the team would sit down with star safety Jamal Adams and hammer out a contract extension after the NFL Draft. Well, the draft was last month, and the Jets still haven't talked to Adams.
As a result, Adams is peeved, and trade rumors are beginning to swirl. But what can New York do to keep Adams?
Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated says that it would take Gang Green making Adams the highest-paid safety in football, breaking Eddie Jackson's mark of $14.6 million annually in Chicago.
Breer adds that the Jets will have to make Adams the NFL's richest safety “by a healthy margin” and that if they don't, things could get interesting.
This is hardly the first time Adams' name has been mentioned in trade rumors, as New York was rumored to have been shopping him at the trade deadline back in October.
Adams is coming off of a 2019 campaign in which he played 14 games and registered 75 tackles, 6.5 sacks, an interception, a couple of forced fumbles, a fumble recovery, seven passes defended and a pair of defensive touchdowns en route to a Pro Bowl appearance and a First-Team All-Pro selection.
The 24-year-old, who played his collegiate football at LSU, was originally selected by the Jets with the sixth overall pick of the 2017 NFL Draft.
Adams made the Pro Bowl as soon as his second season after racking up 115 tackles, 3.5 sacks, a pick, three forced fumbles, a fumble recovery and 12 passes defended.
