Outside Linebacker · Minnesota Vikings

Jamal Adams

No. 32 · 10th season

The same injury, twice. Now Adams waits to see who he is after this.

Jamal Adams has been to this place before. A torn right quadriceps ended his season with the Seattle Seahawks. Now, with the Minnesota Vikings, the same injury has done it again—season over, before the real arc of the story even began. What makes this different is not the injury itself but the timing of it: Adams is a free agent, a player trying to prove he still belongs, trying to rebuild something after years of frustration and movement between teams. A season-ending injury is a door closing at exactly the moment it was supposed to open. He will not play again this year. What happens when he can walk back through that door—if he can, and if anyone is still waiting—is the story that starts now.

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