{"id":680412,"date":"2026-06-02T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680412\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:45:16","slug":"former-mlb-player-making-switch-to-cfb-at-age-26-ranked-higher-than-jamarr-chase-as-hs-wr-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680412\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MLB Player Making Switch to CFB at Age 26, Ranked Higher Than Ja’Marr Chase as HS WR Recruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former top-ranked high school wide receiver turned MLB outfielder Jordyn Adams is attempting to make the switch to college football.<\/p>\n

Adams has enrolled and plans to play football at SMU, On3’s Billy Embody reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The news comes after Adams, 26, was released by the Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n

Adams originally signed with UNC to play wide receiver as a 4-star prospect in the 2018 recruiting class.<\/p>\n

He was ranked at the time as the No. 8 wide receiver in the nation, ahead of LSU’s Ja’Marr Chase at No. 15 on the 247Sports composite rankings<\/a>. That recruiting class also included Amon-Ra St. Brown (No. 2), Jaylen Waddle (No. 5) and Justyn Ross (No. 7).<\/p>\n

Adams instead chose to go into MLB after he was selected by the Los Angeles Angels in the first round of the 2018 draft.<\/p>\n

He made his MLB debut for the Angels in 2023 and appeared in 78 games over two seasons before leaving to join the Orioles in free agency.<\/p>\n

The outfielder appeared in 10 games for the Orioles during the 2025 season, his last in MLB. He signed with the Brewers in February and was released by Triple-A Nashville in May.<\/p>\n

He will depart MLB with a career batting average of .165 with 13 hits and one home run over 38 career games. Adams also posted a slash line of .245\/.327\/.376 through 678 games over eight minor-league seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former top-ranked high school wide receiver turned MLB outfielder Jordyn Adams is attempting to make the switch to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-680412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}