Refs Somehow Miss An Egregious Hit On Titans’ Adam Humphries

Titans receiver Adam Humphries was tracking a pass over the middle from Ryan Tannehill when he was clearly targeted by Bengals safety Jessie Bates III. Knocked out ice cold sending his right arm limp and somehow someway–the call the missed.

See for yourself.

Adam Humphries gets hit in the head and is down 🙏 pic.twitter.com/1PFpEkcCsg

— Roto Street Journal (RSJ) (@RotoStJournal) November 1, 2020

Targeting is generally a difficult call to make because we always want to make sure we aren’t punishing a defender when his intention was to make a play. There was no intention to make a football play in this instance. A completely inexcusable hit that unfortunately was met with no consequence. League officials will likely step in post-game on this one.

Here’s a better angle:

Adam Humphries suffered an injury here. Hope he's okay.pic.twitter.com/7IvkCaYS1q

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) November 1, 2020

Can always argue that Humphries was beginning to lower himself, but you can’t blind side a receiver like that. Outkick’s very own Clay Travis weighed in on the hit.

Good to see Adam Humphries up, but how do you miss that call? Pretty inexcusable.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) November 1, 2020

As Travis mentions, Humphries was able to walk off under team super-vision and was sent directly to the locker room. We await an update on his condition.