After a court order yesterday prohibited Adam “Pacman” Jones from participating in TNA’s Hard Justice pay-per-view, the suspended NFL player’s lawyers and the Tennessee Titans reached an agreement last night that might allow Jones to appear at tomorrow’s show after all, The Nashville Tennessean reported.

Earlier in the day, the Titans were granted a temporary restraining order from a Tennessee court that barred Jones from participating in any TNA event as a “wrestler, spectator, announcer, participant or otherwise.”

Under the new arrangement, Jones agreed to avoid physical contact of any kind in TNA, a source told The Tennessean, which reported that the two sides will go before a judge this morning in attempt to modify the original court order.

After these developments, it seems likely that Jones will appear at Hard Justice as scheduled. The plan never was for him to wrestle on the show, but if he was scripted to do a run-in or a pull-apart, that probably won’t be happening.

The question is, what value does Jones have in TNA if he is not allowed to do anything other than stand around? Terms of his contract with TNA have not been disclosed, but it’s unlikely that the company will get its money’s worth, no what the figure is. With Jones not being permitted to wrestle, I wouldn’t be surprised if TNA tried to pull out of the deal.

Signing Jones, who is more infamous than famous, was a desperate attempt by TNA to get mainstream publicity, and it has blown up in the company’s face. Those who negotiated this deal for TNA have no one to blame but themselves. TNA should have never signed him, let alone advertised him for a pay-per-view, until it had in writing exactly what he could and could not do as far as physical contact.

Although TNA has gotten its wish as far as making national headlines, I said right from the start that Jones wouldn’t attract that many new viewers. I did expect his heavily hyped first appearance on TNA television to slightly raise the ratings for Thursday’s Impact, but the ratings actually went down. Thursday’s show did a 1.0, down from last week’s 1.1.