{"id":976,"date":"2026-06-02T20:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:40:28","slug":"former-salt-lake-bees-los-angeles-angels-player-reportedly-enrolls-at-smu-to-play-football-eight-years-after-graduating-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Former Salt Lake Bees, Los Angeles Angels player reportedly enrolls at SMU to play football \u2014\u00a0eight years after graduating high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Salt Lake Bees and Los Angeles Angeles outfielder Jordyn Adams spent eight seasons in the minor leagues and MLB, but is deciding to go a different direction with his sports career.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=974\">Utah\u2019s closed fire season arrives as above-normal fire risk rises statewide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to On3\u2019s Billy Embody, Adams enrolled at SMU and intends to play for the football team. He changed his Instagram bio to @smufb.<\/p>\n<p>Despite playing baseball professionally for eight years, Adams would still have college football eligibility. He\u2019s not the first to return to college football after baseball, as CBS Sports points out, with Monte Harrison playing at Arkansas in 2023 and Brandon Weeden playing at Oklahoma State in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Adams played 38 games over three seasons for the Angels, batting .165 with one home run and five RBI. In September 2024, he hit a walk-off single to beat the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>He spent two seasons with the Salt Lake Bees, batting .267 with 15 home runs and 67 RBI in 2023, and .261 with 10 home runs and 58 RBI in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=972\">Volaris launches Guadalajara service, becomes 3rd carrier with direct Utah-to-Mexico flights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He showed off his athleticism multiple times during his time in the minors, including a home run robbery that saved what would have been the go-ahead runs during his time with the Nashville Sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Adams was one of the top wide receivers in the nation in the high school class of 2018. He was a five-star prospect and was ranked the No. 17 player in the entire country and the No. 3 wide receiver by 247Sports, behind only Amon-Ra St. Brown, now a star with the Lions, and Justin Shorter, who plays for the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>Adams was even ranked ahead of Cincinnati Bengals star Ja\u2019Marr Chase by 247Sports.<\/p>\n<p>At 26 years old, with his high school contemporaries in the NFL, Adams will chase his own football dream with SMU.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=970\">Series recap: Bees and Express win three games each in Round Rock<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Salt Lake Bees and Los Angeles Angeles outfielder Jordyn Adams spent eight seasons in the minor leagues and MLB, but is deciding to go a different direction with his sports career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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