Safety

Jamal Adams

No. 33 · 10th season

Jamal Adams shows up to Vikings camp like he has something to prove

There is a version of this story where Jamal Adams never plays another NFL game. He was a free agent, no team, waiting out the summer while camps opened everywhere else without him. That kind of waiting has a way of answering questions a player would rather leave open.

Adams made his name as one of the most aggressive safeties in football — a player whose whole identity is about showing up to the moment, not watching it from a distance. The offseason had been quieter than that reputation deserved.

Now he is in Minnesota, at the Vikings' training camp, talking to reporters and telling anyone who asks that the sky's the limit with his new team. It is the kind of line that gets said a lot at camp in July. Coming from someone who spent the summer without a roster spot, it lands a little differently.

What happens next is genuinely open. A player who walked in close to the start of camp has a short window to make the case. Adams has made cases under pressure before. The question is whether this one sticks.

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