REPORT: Jets "Open to Trading" Jamal Adams Before Season. Will 49ers get him?

Jamal Adams just took one step closer to joining the 49ers.

Grant Cohn | Jul 24, 2020

Jamal Adams just took one step closer to joining the 49ers.

Adams gave an exclusive interview to the New York Daily News’ Manish Mehta, and said Jets general manager Joe Douglas has informed Adams the team is “open to trading him before the start of the season.” The Jets still won’t let Adams reach out to teams himself and negotiate trade terms, but that could change soon, too.

It seems the Jets have given in to the demands of their only super star. It seems the Jets have no leverage and they know it.

So it seems the 49ers may acquire Adams soon. Maybe even during training camp.

Adams told the New York Daily News he wants off the Jets on principle, not because of money. He said Douglas, the Jets GM, promised to send Adams an offer for a contract extension this offseason, but never sent an offer and then lied about promising to send one.

Adams said he would have been fine waiting for an extension had the Jets simply been up front and honest with him, but they weren’t, so he can’t trust them anymore.

Adams also said Jets head coach Adam Gase doesn’t have a relationship with all his players. Said he doesn’t always address the entire team during halftime or midweek. Basically suggested Gase either is afraid of players, or doesn’t like some of them. What an indictment of a head coach. Apparently, Gase hasn’t spoken to Adams since the exit interviews in December. Meaning they have no relationship. Yikes.

Adams said he “wants to be with an organization that wants to win and do things the right way.”

The 49ers fit that description. And so do their division rivals, the Seahawks. And Adams told ESPN’s Adam Schefter he’d be open to play for either team. And the 49ers and Seahawks have shown interest in trading for Adams, per multiple reports.

Stay tuned. This story could find a resolution any day.

Published Jul 24, 2020

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.