Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams nearly set a team record during Sunday’s 43-34 win over the Minnesota Vikings.
He’ll have to settle for tying.
Adams caught a career-high 14 passes, matching Don Hutson’s nearly 80-year-old record. Huston caught 14 passes in a game against the New York Giants in 1942.
Adams said it was Aaron Rodgers who told him about tying the record on the sideline in the fourth quarter. The final connection was a 40-yard catch that helped set up the final Packers touchdown.
Adams finished with 14 catches for 156 yards and two scores, including a 24-yard score on a vintage Rodgers play late in the first half. He later added a second score on a 1-yard pass late in the third quarter.
Rodgers targeted Adams 17 times. His passer rating when targeting Adams was 144.1. Rodgers said he never felt he was force-feeding Adams on Sunday.
Two of the three missed targets probably should have been completions. Adams dropped a fourth-down play on a short, quick throw near the end zone in the first half, and a second incompletion looked like it would have been overturned if not for a slight bobble along the sideline.
Adams had nine of his 14 catches in the first half.
His previous career-high for catches in a game was 13, set last season in the Packers’ win against the Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. So, over his last two games in Minnesota, he has 27 catches.
He obviously won’t do it, but Adams is now on pace for 224 catches in 2020 after one week.
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