Vernon Adams

Vernon Adams
No. 3     Montreal Alouettes
Date of birth (1993-01-03) January 3, 1993
Place of birth Pasadena, California
Career information
Status Active
CFL status International
Position(s) QB
Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight 200 lb (91 kg)
College Oregon
High school Mission Hills (CA) Bishop Alemany
NFL draft 2016 / Undrafted
Career history
As player
2016–present Montreal Alouettes
Career stats

Vernon Anthony Adams Jr. (born January 3, 1993) is a gridiron football quarterback for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for the Eastern Washington Eagles and Oregon Ducks.

Early years

Adams graduated from Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, in 2011. In his final two seasons, he passed for 5,234 yards and 49 touchdowns, and rushed for another 1,263 yards and 19 more scores in leading Alemany to an overall record of 22–5.

As a junior, Adams passed for 2,333 yards and 22 touchdowns, and also rushed for 367 yards and five scores. He led Alemany to a 10–4 record.[1]

As a senior, he was selected the Serra League Most Valuable Player after leading the Warriors to the league title in 2010. He earned first team all-league honors for the second-straight season. Alemany won its first 12 games before losing its final game of the season, 28–21, against eventual champion Servite High School in the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section Pac-5 Playoffs. He passed for 2,901 yards with 27 touchdowns and nine interceptions, and had 896 yards rushing with 14 touchdowns.

Coming out of high school, Adams did not receive any scholarship offers from Football Bowl Subdivision schools, due in part to concerns regarding his height. He would eventually receive only two scholarships offers from Football Championship Subdivision schools Portland State and Eastern Washington.[2] Adams originally made a verbal commitment to Portland State, but flipped on National Signing Day and signed with Eastern Washington.[3]

College career

Eastern Washington

2012

After redshirting the 2011 season as Eastern Washington's Offensive Scout Team Player of the Year,[1] Adams would split time at quarterback with Junior Kyle Padron in 2012. Starting in nine of twelve games, Adams helped lead the Eagles to the FCS playoff semifinals and finished the year with 1,961 yards passing, 20 touchdowns to 8 interceptions and a 160.80 pass efficiency rating, which was the fourth-best mark in the FCS that year.[1]

In the Eagles' playoff loss to Sam Houston State, Adams came off of the bench in the second half, completing 14-of-26 passes for 364 yards and a school-record six touchdowns, nearly rallying the Eagles from a 35–0 halftime deficit.[4]

Adams freshman season came with multiple accolades where he selected as the Freshman of the Year on the College Sporting News “Fabulous 50” All-America team and named to the College Sports Journal Freshman All-America squad.[5] He was also one of 20 players on the ballot for the Jerry Rice Award, given to the top freshman in FCS by The Sports Network, which he finished in sixth place.[1]

2013

Entering his sophomore season as the unquestioned starter, Adam’s catapulted himself onto the national stage when he engineered a 49–46 upset win at #25 Oregon State as he passed for 411 yards and four touchdowns while also rushing for 107 yards and two touchdowns.[6] For his performance, Adams became the first-ever FCS player to be included in the HeismanPundit.com straw poll.[7]

With a 12–3 record, Adams led the Eagles to the Big Sky Conference Championship and the NCAA Division I Semifinal while being named Big Sky All-Conference 1st Team, Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year,[8] and selected as the FCS National Performer of the Year by College Football Performance Awards, the top overall honor given out by the CFPA at the FCS level.[9] He also finished second in the voting for the Walter Payton Award.[10]

Starting in all 15 games, Adams threw for 4,994 yards with 55 touchdown passes while also rushing for 605 yards.

2014

Adams entered his junior season as one of the most high-profile players at the FCS level. He would lead his team to a third-straight Big Sky Conference championship and a third-straight trip to the FCS playoffs. Adams' per-game averages for total offensive yards (376.8), passing yards (348.3) and points responsible for (24.8) were tops in the nation, but he didn’t play enough games to officially be listed in NCAA statistics.[11] Adams broke two bones in his foot during a win over Idaho State on October 4, causing him to miss four games.[12]

Against Washington on September 5, Adams completed 31 of 46 passes for 475 yards and seven touchdowns in a 59–52 loss. The seven touchdowns were the most the Huskies had allowed to an opposing quarterback at home in school history.[13]

Adams received a number of postseason awards, to include being named the Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Year and First-Team All-Big Sky Conference for the second-straight year.[14] He was also named a First-Team All-American by the Associated Press.[15] Adams was again a finalist for the Walter Payton Award, but was the runner-up for the second-straight year, losing to John Robertson of Villanova.[16]

In January, Adams asked for, and was granted, a release from his scholarship from Eastern Washington so that he could speak to other programs in regards to transferring for his senior season.[17] Adams contacted Oregon, UCLA, and Boise State. Texas and Maryland also contacted Adams in regards to transferring.[2]

Oregon

On February 9, 2015 Adams announced his plans to accept a scholarship to Oregon and transfer for his senior season, choosing to play for the Ducks over remaining at Eastern Washington. However, later that summer it was reported that Adams needed to complete a math course in order to graduate from Eastern Washington University. On August 13, 2015, he passed the math class to graduate from Eastern Washington and officially joined the Oregon Ducks.[18] After just two weeks on campus, Adam's was named the starting quarterback on August 28.[19] His first start came against his former team, Eastern Washington. Adams started 10 games and passed for 2,643 yards, 26 touchdowns and six interceptions.

College statistics

Passing Rushing
Season Team W-L COMP ATT PCT YDS YDS/C TD INT RAT QBR ATT YDS YDS/A TD
2012 Eastern Washington 8–1 131 215 60.9 1,961 15.0 20 8 160.8 – 65 342 5.3 1
2013 Eastern Washington 12–3 319 486 65.6 4,994 15.7 55 15 183.1 – 132 605 4.6 4
2014 Eastern Washington 8–2 251 380 66.1 3,483 13.9 35 8 169.2 – 100 258 2.6 6
Career Eastern Washington 28–6 701 1,081 64.8 10,438 14.9 110 31 173.8 – 297 1,205 4.1 11
Passing Rushing
Season Team W-L COMP ATT PCT YDS YDS/C TD INT RAT QBR ATT YDS YDS/A TD
2015 Oregon 7–3 168 259 64.9 2,643 10.2 26 6 179.1 80.0 83 147 1.8 2
Career NCAA 35–9 869 1,340 64.9 13,081 13.7 136 37 174.8 — 380 1,352 3.6 13


Note: Total QB Rating or QBR is a proprietary quarterback rating metric owned and used by ESPN. Adams' game while attending EWU were not evaluated by ESPN for QBR. For college football games, ESPN uses two forms of their QBR metric: a raw version and an adjusted version. This is to account for the wide variation in defensive talent among college football teams. The adjusted QBR is used in this table.

College awards

Professional career

Pre-draft

Pre-draft measurables
Ht WtArm lengthHand size 40-yd dash 10-yd split 20-yd split 20-ss 3-cone Vert Broad BP
5 ft 11 in 200 lb 30 1⁄4 in 9 1⁄8 in 4.83 s 6.82 s 29.5 in 11 ft 4 in
All values from NFL Combine,[20]

Post-draft

Adams went undrafted in the 2016 NFL Draft. After the draft, he accepted an invitation to attend the Seattle Seahawks rookie mini-camp on a tryout basis.[21] However, after the mini-camp was finished, the Seahawks decided not to sign Adams.[22] Following that, Adams attended the Washington Redskins rookie mini-camp as a tryout.[23]

Montreal Alouettes

On May 18, 2016, the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League revealed that they were negotiating with Adams who was on their negotiation list.[24] Two days later his rights were traded to the Montreal Alouettes in exchange for a 1st-round pick in the 2017 CFL Draft.[25] In response, Vernon Adams tweeted "Can’t wait to get to Montreal Alouettes. Thank you God."[26] It was announced that Adams had signed with the Alouettes on May 22, 2016 to a three-year contract.[27] On October 22, he started his first game for the Alouettes.[28] Adams started the final three games of the regular season, winning all three games.[29] The Al's finished the 2016 season in second last place in the East division with a record of 7-11, missing the playoffs.

Career Statistics

Year Team Games

Dressed

 Games

Started

 Completions Attempts % Yards Touchdowns Interceptions Rating
2016 MON 4 3 42 75 56 575 4 1 92.9
TOTAL 4 3 42 75 56 575 4 1 92.9

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Official Eastern Washington Eagles Vernon Adams bio". Goeags.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Vernon Adams is a quarterback without a team — for now". usatoday.com. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Vernon Adams: A verbal commit". psuvanguard.com. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Sam Houston State Holds Off Second-Half Comeback From EWU". college-sports-journal.com. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  5. ↑ "EWU Football: Vernon Adams Picked as FCS Freshman of the Year". swxrightnow.com. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  6. ↑ "EWU upsets No. 25 Oregon State". foxsports.com. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Tajh Boyd leads HeismanPundit.com Heisman Straw Poll after first week of play". heismanpundit.com. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Adams and Kupp take top Big Sky honors, 25 Eags named All-Conference". KREM.com. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Vernon Adams and Cooper Kupp Receive Top Honors from College Performance Awards". goeags.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Eastern Washington's Vernon Adams 2nd in voting for Payton Award". seattletimes.com. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Eastern Washington junior QB Vernon Adams Jr. finishes 2nd again in Walter Payton Award balloting". spokesmanreview.com. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
  12. ↑ "EWU quarterback Vernon Adams to miss 3–6 weeks with broken foot". spokesmanreview.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Vernon Adams Jr. puts up big numbers for Eastern Washington". latimes.com. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Eastern quarterback Vernon Adams Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year". spokesmanreview.com. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Vernon Adams top QB on All-America list". spokesmanreview.com. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Adams fininshes second for Walter Payton award...again". khq.com. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
  17. ↑ "Eastern grants Vernon Adams a release to explore opportunity at Oregon". spokesman.com. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Quarterback Vernon Adams chooses Oregon, will join Ducks rather than return to Eastern Washington". oregonlive.com. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  19. ↑ Vernon Adams named starting QB for Ducks in Week 1 vs. E. Washington
  20. ↑ "NFL Events: Combine Player Profiles - Vernon Adams". National Football League.
  21. ↑ Condotta, Bob (April 30, 2016). "Oregon QB Vernon Adams to attend Seahawks rookie mini-camp on a tryout basis". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  22. ↑ Alper, Josh (May 9, 2016). "Seahawks sign five tryout players; Vernon Adams not among them". NBCSports.com. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  23. ↑ David Smith, Michael (May 13, 2016). "Vernon Adams gets another tryout, in Washington". NBCSports.com. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  24. ↑ "Checking Down: Brett Boyko, Vernon Adams and more". CFL.ca. 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  25. ↑ "Lions trade Vernon Adams rights to Als for first round pick - Sportsnet.ca". Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  26. ↑ "Vernon Adams Jr. on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  27. ↑ Alouettes sign Adams Jr. to a three-year deal
  28. ↑ "Vernon Adams Jr. to make first career start". CFL.ca. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  29. ↑ Stefano, Riccardo Di. "Alouettes win finale in Hamilton". realsport101.com. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
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