Tony Adams
Tennessee TitansModel Score
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 →
Season Stats · 12 games
Draft & College
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Comps
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.