Adams seems to be recovered from a head injury sustained last season, Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic reports.
Adams initially injured his head during the team's Week 18 loss to Miami but is now healthy again. The 24-year-old will compete for the backup spot behind Jordan Whitehead throughout the remainder of the summer.
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Jets' Bradlee Anae: Moved to IR
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The Jets placed Anae on IR with an undisclosed injury Thursday, Ethan Greenberg of the team's official site reports.
Anae appears to have sustained an injury at some point during the Jets' voluntary OTA sessions. While the exact nature of this issue is unclear, the 25-year-old will now be forced to sit out the entirety of the 2023 campaign unless he is released with an injury settlement.
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Jets' Brandin Echols: Hit with one-game suspension
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The NFL suspended Echols (quadriceps) one game for violating the league's personal conduct policy Thursday, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reports.
Echols started all 14 games he appeared in as a 2021 sixth-round rookie, but he was relegated to strict special teams work last season, playing just 69 defensive snaps across 13 contests. Echols will miss the Week 1 opener against the Bills.
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Jets' Carl Lawson: Reworks deal
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Lawson restructured his contract with the Jets on Thursday, Field Yates of ESPN reports.
Lawson's reworked deal will help to open up $12.7 million in 2023 salary cap space. The 27-year-old will go from earning a non-guaranteed $15 million this year to a guaranteed $8 million and the ability to earn $3 million more in incentives. Lawson is coming off perhaps the best season of his career, with 33 tackles, seven sacks, a forced fumble and fumble recovery.
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Steelers' Luq Barcoo: Finds new home
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Barcoo signed a one-year deal with the Steelers on Wednesday, Teresa Varley of the team's official site reports.
Barcoo played in three games with the Jaguars in 2020 but has since bounced around multiple organizations' practice squads. He most recently competed in the XFL with the San Antonio Brahmas. The cornerback will attend the Steelers' offseason program and will likely be competing for a depth role in the secondary during training camp.
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Jets' Jarrick Bernard-Converse: Depth piece for secondary
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The Jets selected Bernard-Converse in the sixth round of the NFL Draft, 204th overall.
The 6-foot-1 corner wasn't invited to the NFL Combine, but he reportedly posted a 4.39 40-yard dash at his LSU Pro Day and offers a wealth of experience having played in 64 contests across his collegiate career. Expect the lengthy secondary player to give the Jets some versatility as a depth piece.
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Jets' Zaire Barnes: Depth option at LB
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The Jets selected Barnes in the sixth round of the NFL Draft, 184th overall.
An off-ball linebacker, Barnes played safety in high school and flashed plus coverage skills at Western Michigan in both 2021 and '22. There's room to improve when it comes to his tackling tackling technique, and it's tough to know if Barnes' 6-foot-1 frame can add more weight (233 pounds) to hold up at the NFL level, but the 23-year-old's versatility is valuable for a Jets defense that hasn't added many pieces throughout the 2023 NFL Draft.
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Jets' Bryce Huff: Signs tender with New York
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Huff signed his one-year tender with the Jets on Thursday, Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Houston reports.
Huff had been a restricted free agent but will now return to New York for the upcoming campaign. The 25-year-old logged six tackles (four solo) and 3.5 sacks while playing on both defense and special teams last year. Now that he's back in the fold the 2020 undrafted free agent should continue to provide solid pass-rushing depth this coming season.
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Jets' Quinnen Williams: Not attending voluntary workouts
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Williams is skipping the voluntary part of the offseason program as he continues to negotiate a new contract, Al Iannazzone of Newsday reports.
Williams produced a career-high 12 sacks in 2022, recording 55 total tackles while deflecting four passes, forcing two fumbles and recovering a fumble over 16 contests. As a result of his massive campaign, Williams wants a contract extension ahead of 2023 and has said he will hold out of the voluntary workouts while negotiating.
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Jets' Solomon Thomas: Returning to Jets
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The Jets agreed Wednesday to re-sign Thomas to a one-year deal worth up to $3.9 million, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports.
Thomas first signed with the Jets on a one-year, $2.25 million contract last offseason following one campaign with the Raiders. This deal reunited the 6-foot-2 interior defensive lineman with Jets head coach Robert Saleh, who served as Thomas' defensive coordinator in San Francisco from 2017-20. The 27-year-old went on to record double-digit tackles for just the second time in his career while playing in the Jets' deep rotation of defensive linemen. Thomas now figures to reprise a similar role alongside star defensive tackle Quinnen Williams this coming season.
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Jets' Bryce Huff: Tendered at second-round level
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The Jets tendered Huff at the second-round level as a restricted free agent Wednesday, Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Houston reports.
The 2020 undrafted free agent out of Memphis recorded 3.5 sacks on just 191 defensive snaps last season and is in line for an expanded pass-rushing role in 2023. He has 7.5 sacks on 823 career snaps.
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Texans' Sheldon Rankins: Lands in Houston on one-year deal
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The Texans agreed to terms with Rankins on a one-year, $10.5 million contract Wednesday, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports.
The No. 12 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, Rankins spent the last two seasons with the Jets after beginning his career in New Orleans. He's coming off a 2022 campaign in which he tallied three sacks and 43 tackles over 15 appearances. Rankins is a lane plugger up front and should be among the Texans' leaders in snaps played at defensive tackle during the upcoming season.
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Saints' Nathan Shepherd: Lands in Big Easy
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Shepherd agreed Wednesday with the Saints on a three-year, $15 million contract, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports.
Shepherd's deal reportedly includes $10.2 million guaranteed. The veteran defensive tackle is coming off consecutive seasons without missing a single game, while operating as a key depth option along the Jets' defensive line. He stands to handle a similarly significant role in New Orleans going forward.
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Jets' Quincy Williams: Agrees to three-year deal
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Williams agreed to a three-year, $18 million contract with the Jets on Sunday, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports.
Williams was slated to become an unrestricted free agent this week, but he'll instead remain in New York. The 26-year-old has recorded back-to-back seasons with 100-plus tackles since joining the Jets, and he logged 106 tackles (74 solo), including three sacks, and a pass defense over 15 appearances last year.
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Marcell Harris: Tenure with Jets ceases
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Harris' (ankle) practice-squad contract with the Jets expired Monday, per the NFL's transaction log.
Harris opened the regular season on the Jets' active roster and appeared in the first 10 games before being waived Nov. 24. The 28-year-old linebacker then joined the team's practice squad and was elevated for the Week 14 loss to Buffalo. However, he was forced out with an ankle injury that landed him on the practice-squad injured list for the remainder of the 2022 campaign. Harris, who spent the first four seasons in a consistent role with San Francisco, finished this season with a career-low 12 tackles. He'll now likely seek to carve out a special-teams role somewhere heading into the 2023 regular season.
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Jets' Craig James: Lands new deal
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James signed a reserve/future contract Wednesday, Ethan Greenberg of the Jets' official site reports.
James was cut by the Jets in July with a non-football injury designation. Now healthy, James will get a second chance to earn a role with the team next season.
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Jets' D.J. Reed: Shines opposite Sauce
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Reed totaled career highs in tackles (80), solo tackles (63) and passes defensed (12), while adding one interception and playing all 17 games in 2022.
Reed was excellent in his first season with the Jets, forming half of the league's best cornerback duo alongside rookie Pro Bowler Sauce Gardner. Unfortunately for the Jets, the team's struggles on offense wasted a phenomenal season from the secondary as New York fell short of the playoffs at 7-10. Reed has two more years on the contract he signed prior to the 2022 campaign.
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Jets' John Franklin-Myers: Five sacks in 2022
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Franklin-Myers racked up 38 tackles (16 solo), five sacks and one pass defensed while playing all 17 games in 2022.
Franklin-Myers set a new career high in tackles by three while coming one sack short of his 2021 total. The versatile defensive lineman can line up along the edge or on the interior, and he's expected to remain a key defensive piece for the Jets in 2023, which will be the second year of a four-year, $55 million contract. JFM was involved in one of the low points of New York's once-promising 7-10 season, as a controversial roughing the passer penalty on Franklin-Myers wiped out a pick-six in a five-point, Week 8 loss to New England.
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Jets' Jordan Whitehead: Career-best 89 tackles in 2022
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Whitehead totaled a career-high 89 tackles (58 solo) to go with two interceptions and eight passes defensed in 2022.
The physical safety played in all 17 games in his first season with the Jets, and he was a key cog in one of the league's stingiest secondaries. Whitehead has one more year left on his contract, so he's expected to reprise the starting strong safety role for Gang Green in 2023.
Williams finished the 2022 campaign with 106 tackles (74 solo), three sacks, 12 tackles for loss and one pass defensed.
What Williams lacks in coverage ability, he makes up for in stopping the run, as the 2019 third-round draft selection of the Jaguars has racked up 216 tackles in 31 games since being claimed on waivers by the Jets. Quincy will be an unrestricted free agent this offseason, though his preference is to remain in New York alongside his brother Quinnen Williams.
