Seattle Seahawks star Jamal Adams is expected to miss the rest of the NFL season

Seattle Seahawks Safety Jamal Adams He is expected to miss the remainder of the NFL season after sustaining a quadriceps tendon injury in the team’s opener, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

Seahawks put Adams on injured reserve on Thursday and fell defensive back Tees queue from the Atlanta Falcons coaching staff to replace him on their roster of 53 players.

Adams and the Seahawks believe the three-time Pro Bowl selection was on a rebound campaign after a disappointing 2021 season in which they were played without a bag in 12 games. But any chance of that ended in the second quarter of the Seattle’s 17-16 win over the Denver Broncos on Monday night when Adams walked off the field after being injured while attacking his former teammate. Russell Wilson.

Coach Pete Carroll called it a “serious” post-injury game and said on his weekly 710 a.m. radio show on Seattle Sports on Tuesday that Adams “will have to get some work done on it,” although he stopped short of announcing Adams’ season at the time. is over.

The NFL Network first reported Thursday that Adams will have surgery at the end of the season.

Adams walked off the field in palpable pain, heavily favoring his left leg, after pressure and a hit on Wilson helped force her not to complete the third. After being examined in the medical tent, he was taken to an injured cart. Adams was clearly upset, at one point seeming to burst out in frustration, as he was pushed into the locker room.

Carroll said the injury was to the Adams quadriceps tendon, which attaches the quad muscle to the top of the kneecap.

“The fact that he’s so loved at the game of football, he loves playing and can’t deal with it right now about ‘How can this go on?'” Carroll said on his radio show. “It was nice to have his mum and dad really in the locker room during the game when he was there to kind of help him through all of it, but it was really hard. So I hope everyone sends love to him. “

Adams had three tackles and defended a pass before getting injured. Josh Jones Replace it for the rest of the game. Seattle has too Ryan Neal as a safety option. Neill made four appearances in 2020, while Adams was sidelined with a thigh injury. Tabor, 26, played last season for the Chicago Bears under defensive coordinator Shaun Desai, who is now on the Seattle defense staff.

Adams missed only two games during his first three seasons with the New York Jets, but then missed nine games during his first two seasons with the Seahawks – four in 2020 and the final fifth season after suffering a torn shoulder that once again required surgery. Adams wasted time early in training camp this summer after breaking his middle finger on his left hand, another injury he has sustained in the past. He has had finger surgeries in each of the past two seasons.

Adams and the Seahawks hoped Seattle’s new defense — with its focus on divided safety looks — would put him in a position to bounce back. During his stellar debut season in Seattle in 2020, Adams set an NFL record for sacks with a defensive back with a score of 9.5, earning him a Pro Bowl nod for the third time in a row. But then came his 2021 zero-sack season, which ended after 12 games when he regained his shoulder strain.

Adams, who spoke last week for the first time since his last finger injury, said Seattle’s new defense puts him “in a position to play.”

“You’re back in my element, man,” he said. “I feel like I’m back to playing defense.”

The Seahawks acquired Adams from the Jets in 2020 for a package that included first-round picks in 2021 and 2022. They signed him for a four-year, $70 million extension last summer which made him the top safety pick in the NFL at the time.