Seahawks' Pete Carroll quashes talk of Jamal Adams' demise

Coach Pete Carroll attempted on Tuesday to quash any notion that the Seattle Seahawks are considering cutting safety Jamal Adams after the team's recent acquisition of Julian Love.

Carroll, speaking at the NFL's annual meetings in Phoenix, stressed that the signing of the versatile Love doesn't impact Adams or fellow safety Quandre Diggs, other than allowing Seattle to play with all three at once.

It remains unclear if Adams, who is coming off surgery to repair a torn quad tendon, will be ready for Week 1 of the 2023 season.

«We've sent our guys out to see him about 10 days ago and he's coming in in the next couple weeks, too, so we're keeping track,» Carroll said. «It sounds like he's doing great. He's pushing it and he's going to try to bust whatever projections that would keep him from… being ready for the start of the season. He's looking to get that done. We're counting on it, hoping it.

»I know there's some conversation that what we did with Julian, does that have some impact on Jamal or Quandre — it doesn't. We have a clear thought of what we're going to do with our guys and how we want to play them and we feel very fortunate to have all our guys."

That plan includes packages that employ three safeties on the field together, with Adams playing closer to the line of scrimmage in a pseudo-linebacker role. The Seahawks intended to do that in 2022, believing it could reignite Adams after his down season in 2021, but he was lost for the year in the first half of their opener. On the play he was injured, Adams blitzed from a linebacker alignment with two safeties lined up behind him.

«We've been on this for a while,» Carroll said.

The speculation that the Seahawks could move on from Adams was tied to his hefty contract,