Titans grant three-time Pro Bowler's release request on 29th birthday

Safety Jamal Adams is celebrating his 29th birthday on Thursday with a fresh start.

The three-time Pro Bowl safety was granted his release from the Tennessee Titans on Thursday after recently requesting the move.

While he's still on the right side of 30, Adams has struggled mightily to stay healthy in recent seasons, with his last Pro Bowl campaign coming in 2020. That capped off a stretch of three straight Pro Bowl years , but since then, he hasn't played more than 12 games in a season.

The LSU product made up part of Tennessee's top-ranked secondary in the NFL (685 total passing yards allowed entering Week 7) but was fighting for playing time behind the likes of starters Amani Hooker and three-time Pro Bowler Quandre Diggs, as well as backups Julius Wood and Mike Brown.

Adams appeared in three of the Titans' first five games but only played 20 snaps with four tackles and hadn't taken the field since the team's Week 4 win against the Miami Dolphins on Sept. 30.

Tennessee placed Adams on the reserve/non-football injury list on Saturday (meaning he'd have to miss at least the next four contests) after he didn't practice all of last week due to a hip ailment. Adams missed the Titans' Week 1 loss vs. the Chicago Bears because of the injury.

The 2017 sixth overall pick signed a one-year deal with Tennessee in July, joining the squad's revamped secondary that also includes offseason acquisitions in former Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Chidobe Awuzie and ex-Kansas City Chiefs star cornerback L'Jarius Sneed.