Tony Adams

Tennessee Titans

Pos S

Updated October 8, 2026

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Model Score

73.3 MODEL

2023

81.9

2024

74.5

2025

73.4

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

Tier 8 (#64) in 2024 to tier 5 (#37) breakout in 2025 is a 27-spot one-year jump for a 2022 UDFA. The Illinois Big Ten UDFA origin plus four years of Jets system experience give him basic veteran value. The 2026 question is whether Adams holds tier 5 or better across a full second starter season or whether the 2025 finish was a one-year context spike.

Adams came out of Illinois as a 2022 undrafted free agent signed by the New York Jets. He has anchored the Jets' safety rotation across four seasons. His STTM career runs tier 7 (#52) in 2023, tier 8 (#64) in 2024, and tier 5 (#37) breakout in 2025.

Strengths

Tier 5 (#37) breakout in year four as a 2022 UDFA puts him in the rare outlier-positive late-bloomer S class.
Illinois Big Ten UDFA origin plus four years of Jets system experience gives him real journeyman veteran value.

Concerns

Single tier 5 finish in an otherwise tier 7-8 STTM history puts the 2025 production on a small sample with downside risk.
Jets' broader defensive identity instability plus the multi-year offensive rebuild compresses the structural support around Adams.

What to watch: Whether Adams holds tier 5 or better across the full 2026 Jets season, the threshold for confirming the 2025 breakout was structural.