Former Oregon QB Vernon Adams Gets Tryout With Seahawks After Going Undrafted

Oregon quarterback Vernon Adams wasn't picked in the 2016 NFL Draft, however didn't need to hold up long to discover a group that will give him a shot. The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports Adams has consented to tryout with the Seattle Seahawks amid one week from now's new kid on the block minicamp, however the likelihood remains he could simply sign somewhere else on the off chance that he shows signs of improvement offer.

Adams was a productive quarterback in the FCS for Eastern Washington before exchanging to Oregon for his last season. In his lone season with the Ducks, Adams tossed for 2,643 yards with 26 touchdowns and only six capture attempts. Be that as it may, his size is likely the reason he slid out of the draft inside and out.

At only 5'11, 200 pounds, Adams will need to defeat the same sort of difficulties that dropped Russell Wilson to the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft, notwithstanding a solid school profession at NC State and Wisconsin. He likewise confronts the undertaking of persuading mentors that his solid insights weren't the result of school frameworks intended to pile on yardage and measurements.

Coming into the draft, Adams made it clear he thought he was one of the top quarterbacks on the board. "I have an inclination that I'm comparable to other people, or superior to anything others in this draft," he told USA Today Sports.

In a meeting with Dan Patrick days before the draft, Adams said he supposes he has a superior aptitude set than No. 1 general pick Jared Goff.

"Truly, myself I think in case I'm not tantamount to him, then I am superior to anything him," Adams told Patrick. "I'm not going to stay here and say he's superior to anything me in light of the fact that nothing he's doing that I can't do."

Russell Wilson is immovably embedded as the starter in Seattle, yet the Seahawks are as of now without a reinforcement quarterback. Close by Trevone Boykin, who was marked as an undrafted free operator, Adams ought to get a turn the employment amid one week from now's minicamps.