For Tyler Adams, the quick road to MLS involves a long daily commute

Tyler Adams - New York Red Bulls - March 25, 2017

New York Red Bulls midfielder Tyler Adams sat down with ESPN FC's Noah Davis during a recent commute to training to talk about his photography habit, his quick rise from the academy to the staring XI lineup, and what it's like to see his high school friends leaving for college.


Adams still lives with his parents in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., roughly a 75-minute drive from the Red Bulls training facility in New Jersey. He makes the drive each day in the Honda Accord he bought off his mom, and is getting ready to move into a first place of his own after the season ends.


Davis also reveals that Adams is going to school online and aiming for a degree in sports psychology. All in all, it's a portrait of a teenager who is extremely precocious in some aspects of his life, and extremely normal in others – check out the full story on ESPN FC.