Seahawks’ Jamal Adams Speaks Out On Social Media Spat With Reporter

Seattle Seahawks safety Jamal Adams recently got into a battle over social media with a New York Jets reporter, and Adams isn’t pulling any punches.

The tiff started when Jets writer Connor Hughes took to his X account to post a video of Adams getting beaten by a receiver with the caption “yikes.” Adams then responded by posting a photo of Hughes and his wife with the same caption.

Instead of apologizing for the incident, Adams doubled down.

“It’s always the athlete that crossed the line when he responds,” Adams said, according to Gregg Bell of The News Tribune. “But at the end of the day, disrespect is disrespect, however you want to take it. So I responded. I knew when I did hit that tweet, I wasn’t in it to win it. At the end of the day it was to get him to understand, ‘Leave me the hell alone.’ … When others go low, I go lower.”

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was not exactly enthralled with the way Adams has handled the situation and discussed things with the defensive back this week.

“We already addressed it with him,” Carroll said. “I don’t know if it was a great decision. I’m not sure about the details of it, but I know that he realized that he needed to take it down. We don’t want to be part of that.”

Carroll did not specify whether or not Seattle would be disciplining Adams, but more than likely, it seems that the Seahawks will just warn Adams and let that be the end of it.

In eight games this season, Adams has logged 44 tackles and a couple of passes defended.

The 28-year-old, who played his collegiate football at LSU, was originally selected by the Jets with the sixth overall pick of the 2017 NFL Draft.

He spent the first three years of his career in New York before being traded to Seattle in July 2020. Jamal Adams has been a major disappointment thus far with the Seahawks, failing to play in more than 12 games in any single season with the club thus far.

Seattle has lost three games in a row to fall to 6-6. It will take on the San Francisco 49ers this Sunday.