Recently released Brewers minor-leaguer to give college football a try
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Jordyn Adams, an outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers' Class AAA affiliate Nashville Sounds as recently as Memorial Day, will reportedly try to make the jump from baseball to football, headed to Southern Methodist University of play football.
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It's a heck of a career shift at 26 years old, and also not the first time a former Brewers minor-leaguer has tried it.
Adams, a former five-star football prospect out of North Carolina who was among the nation's top receiving recruits, gave his gridiron dreams a rest when he became a first-round pick by the Los Angeles Angels in 2018.
He made it to the big leagues in 2023 and was most recently with Baltimore in 2025. He signed as a minor-league free agent with the Brewers before the 2026 season, beginning at Class AA Biloxi and then getting promoted to Nashville, where he flashed his athleticism with a 458-foot homer and a game-saving, homer-robbing catch in the right-field corner.
The Brewers released Adams on May 25.
In 2024, former Brewers minor-leaguer Monte Harrison also tried a change in sports by joining the University of Arkansas football team at age 28. Harrison, an outfielder who was part of the Christian Yelich trade with Miami in 2018, made a big-league debut in 2020 but ultimately played in only 50 games over three years.
Harrison caught two passes in 11 games as a freshman in 2024 and then saw brief action in 2025 before suffering a season-ending injury. He remains on the Arkansas roster for 2026-27.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers minor-leaguer intends to switch sports, play football at SMU