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Brady HendersonESPN
SEATTLE – Before Jamal Adams gets paid this off-season, he will have to have surgery.
More than one, actually.
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said on Monday that the Pro Bowl strongman will undergo surgery to repair a torn labrum on his left shoulder, an injury he suffered in the team’s 30-20 wild card defeat to the Los Angeles Rams. Adams also needs surgery on two broken fingers on his left hand, according to Carroll, but not on the right shoulder that hurt in week 10.
All of this happens as Adams and the Seahawks head for a contract negotiation.
“Jamal has played an incredible role this season,” said Carroll. “The juice he brought, the competitiveness, the toughness attitude, you couldn’t miss him. He was injured much of the season. He was injured and played very badly in this last game and found a way to do it. There was a question: will he be able to play effectively enough to let him play? But his will was so strong and he just wouldn’t be denied by it and I wanted him to be a part of it. But he had to fight for a few moves in this game, as you can see when you look closely. Your resistance is undeniably there. “
Carroll said there were games against the Rams that Adams did not do because of his injured shoulder. Adams was in a position to take down, if not intercept, a throw that Cooper Kupp took for 44 yards. He lost a tackle on a check-down to Cam Akers, who also went 44 yards.
Adams, 25, said his movements were restricted to his left arm because of a harness he used to support his shoulder, which he had injured the week before.
“This is not an excuse,” he said when asked about the role his injury played in Kupp’s capture. “I have to make the move.”
Adams was credited with four tackles and three passes saved against the Rams.
“I was in a lot of pain, but I fought it,” he said. “It will never be about me. It is about this team, it is about winning, and while my legs are moving, I will be outside.”
Adams’ 9.5 sacks in 12 regular season games have been the biggest ever for a defensive back since the sacks became an official statistic in 1982. His 30 pressures were 14 more than any other DB, according to the ESPN Stats & Information survey. Adams lost four games earlier this year due to a groin injury. He led the Seahawks with 14 tackles to defeat and had no interception, maintaining his career total in two over four seasons.
The Seahawks acquired Adams from the New York Jets last summer in a successful trade, giving up on a package of draft choices that included their first round selections in 2021 and ’22. The contract the Seahawks inherited runs through the 2021 season, which is the fifth year option the Jets exercised.
At the time of the exchange, the Seahawks planned to wait until off-season to try to sign an extension for Adams.
“This is something that is out of my hands now,” said Adams. “I pray to be here. I love being a Seattle Seahawk. I love being part of this organization. It’s a special organization, with special people, with special guys around, and girls too. So when the time comes, come on. But I’m worried about get healthy now and go back and get into the flow of everything and discover everything. So I’m not really focused on that right now. “
Carroll said safety / nickelback Marquise Blair is on his way to be ready for the training ground after surgery on the ACL disruption he suffered in week 2. Forward / out-of-defense linebacker Bruce Irvin, who suffered the same injury in same game, recently had a second surgery for this injury.
“He did very well, but he is behind because of that,” said Carroll.
Irvin is scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent.