Updated October 9, 2026. Phillip Adams, the former NFL cornerback, died on April 8, 2021. A “2023” or “2026” net-worth update cannot describe a living earner. Estate values were not published in a form this page can verify, so the dollar figure previously shown here is withdrawn.

He played in the NFL from 2010 to 2015. In April 2021 he shot and killed six people in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and then killed himself. An autopsy later found severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy. That medical finding is the documented part of the story. A round-number net worth is not.