Outside Linebacker · Minnesota Vikings
Jamal Adams
No. 32 · 10th season
Twelve snaps. One preseason game. A season gone.
Jamal Adams signed with the Minnesota Vikings as a veteran looking for one more meaningful run. He was 30, still hungry, still built for this. The team saw him as a difference-maker—someone who could anchor a defense and help push them toward October.
His first game in a Vikings uniform was a preseason opener against the Giants at MetLife Stadium. About twelve snaps in, on a non-contact play, Adams's right knee gave way. He was carted off the field in the first half. What he felt in that moment, what the team felt watching it happen, landed hard: the injury was season-ending before the season had begun.
Minnesota won that game. It did not matter. Head coach Kevin O'Connell said afterward that he felt for Adams, that the team would miss him. The words were kind, and they were true, and they were beside the point. Adams's 2026 season was finished. Twelve snaps. One preseason game. That was the arc.
Adam Schefter
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More about veteran defender Jamal Adams missing the 2026 season because of a right knee injury he suffered Saturday in the Minnesota Vikings’ 13-10 preseason victory over the New York Giants, via @SeifertESPN: https://t.co/YLCdQl5HCG
12:36 AM · Aug 17, 2026
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