If Davanate Adams makes a move this season, he hopes it will be to the New York Jets. That was the message from Adams this week in a podcast with Shannon Sharpe as the Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver touched on numerous topics including a possible trade to the Jets.
The rumor mill has been in overdrive this week linking Adams with a move to the Jets where he would be re-united with Rodgers. The duo spent the first eight years of Adams’ NFL career together with the Green Bay Packers.
On his podcast, Sharpe asked if Adams was open to being reunited with Rodgers. Adams spoke of the possibility, but said that a trade from the Raiders to the Jets isn’t something he is seeking or even wants to put out there.
That doesn’t mean, however, that Adams wouldn’t like to play again with Rodgers.
“I’ll answer like this, if I’m going to be reunited with anybody, it would be Aaron, okay? But or be, you know, relocated, and be anywhere it would be with Aaron,” Adams told Sharpe.
“There was a lot of that stuff going on last year in the media and them asking, you know, ‘What are you going to do about this? Are you thinking about going here?’ and they talk about whatever without me even being involved in [the conversation]. And it ended up getting all the way to the point where it got in the locker room, and people was thinking that it was, you know, I was putting it out there to force (a trade). And I’m like, ‘Y’all just don’t understand man.’ You know, I hate to say it like this because it makes me sound like I’m trying to put myself on a pedestal..but when you’re the level, a certain level of player, it don’t have to come from you. And most of the time it’s not coming from you.”
Adams then added very succinctly and clearly that “I’m locked in with the Raiders, and I really feel good about this team and as far as I know, they feel good about me.”
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Then, he pivoted to the idea of a trade and playing for the Jets. At no point did Adams indicate that he wants a trade or is seeking a trade.
But he is on a Raiders team right now that is clearly rebuilding and is likely not a playoff contender.
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The Jets, on the other hand, are very much a playoff contender. And they’re a Super Bowl contender if they added Adams to their offense.
“And if that ever changes, that got to a point where they weren’t feeling the same way…I ain’t done playing so obviously we will figure out whatever we needed to figure out,” Adams said.
“But the thought of playing with Aaron is obviously amazing – I already know what that’s like which was similar to why I came here and in reunited with Derek (Carr), was because I had familiarity with him.”