Davante Adams not expected to play Week 5 whether Raiders trade him or not
It would be surprising and probably downright unwise for the Raiders to play Davante Adams and risk a new injury nullifying any trade in place. He missed last Sunday’s game against the Browns with a hamstring injury and a couple days later it was reported he had requested to be traded. Making some wonder if there was an injury at all.
According to reports, the Raiders are telling interested teams that Adams would not be healthy enough to play this week regardless of if he’s traded and perhaps next week as well.
Teams having conversations with the Raiders about Davante Adams have been informed his hamstring injury is expected to keep him sidelined 1-2 weeks. I’ve been told this is a real injury. He is expected to miss this week, but could be back next week if there are no snags.
Though I’d bet whether he’s with the Raiders after this week or not could play a role in whether he is out one week or two. After all, he wants out, so the Raiders want to trade him.
The trade deadline is still a month away on Tuesday November 5. There are four games between now and then. The Raiders bye week is the week after that.
To bring you up to date on the trade news surrounding Davante Adams, we take you back first.
So much is happening minute by minute in the Davante Adams trade news, we decided it might be helpful to put it all in one place so you could track it all. So, let’s start at the beginning and do this chronologically, shall we?
And when I say “beginning” I mean, let’s back up a ways and then catch up to the present.
2024 Offseason
Feb 27: Tom Telesco on possibility of Davante Adams trade ‘He’s a Raider‘
Davante Adams has requested a trade from the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Baltimore Ravens should have an interest in acquring the wide receiver
The Ravens are a run-first team and have a hard enough time navigating a downfield passing attack, but they have the NFL’s top front office and are constantly doing due diligence on players who can improve the roster.
Ian Rapoport is reporting that Davante Adams wants out of Las Vegas, and a Baltimore team that’s 2-2 and a Super Bowl contender could make the list of destinations.
🚨 🚨 🚨 #Raiders star WR Davante Adams informed the team that he preferred to be traded, per me and @MikeGarafolo.
According to Over The Cap, the Ravens currently have over $4 million in available salary cap space.
Baltimore got an up-close look at Adams in a Week 2 loss to the Raiders, as the star wide receiver went for 110 yards and one touchdown on nine catches and 12 targets.
Adams previously praised Lamar Jackson and would upgrade an already solid Ravens passing attack. Adams signed a five-year, $140 million contract with the Raiders in 2022 following a trade from the Packers.
This 2024 season is the final year of guaranteed money ($16.8M), and he’s carry a $25 million cap hit this year, along with a $44 million cap hit in 2025 and a $45 million cap hit in 2026, the final year of his deal.
Davante Adams shocked the world by choosing the Raiders over the Packers. Adams’ history with Derek Carr at Fresno State explains why.
There are all kinds of fascinating wrinkles to the trade that sent receiver Davante Adams from the Green Bay Packers to the Las Vegas Raiders for a first- and a second-round pick — the 22nd and 53rd selections in the 2022 draft.
Wait. That’s ALL the Packers got? The Raiders didn’t throw in a couple more first-rounders and Al Davis’ old sunglasses for the best receiver in football?
Apparently not. What we know is that Adams and the Packers were far apart in negotiations on a new contract, and the Raiders were quite willing to transact. Green Bay had placed the franchise tag on Adams to buy more time, but reports now indicate that even as Aaron Rodgers was signing his new extension with the Packers after so much drama, Rodgers knew that he’d probably never throw to Adams again.
This even when the Packers were willing to match (or possibly exceed) Las Vegas’ offer — a five-year, $141.25 million contract that makes Adams the highest-paid receiver in football.
Per a source, the Packers we’re willing to pay Adams equally to what the Raiders are with this new deal but Adams preferred to play elsewhere.
Aaron Rodgers was aware of the developments with Adams as they unfolded in recent days.
So, why would Adams choose the Raiders and Derek Carr — a far above-average quarterback — over Rodgers, who’s absolutely one of the five best throwers of the football we’ve ever seen?
Source: The Packers were willing to pay Davante Adams as much or more than the Raiders are. It came down to him wanting out and to play with Derek Carr, his college QB.
Also per source, Aaron Rodgers knew this was coming and still signed his new Packers contract.
The answer may well go back to Adams’ college days.
Davante Adams and Derek Carr played 2 seasons together at Fresno State (2012-2013)
In that span:
– Adams led the FBS in receptions, rec yards and rec TD – Carr led the FBS in pass yards and pass TD – The Bulldogs won the inaugural Mountain West Championship Game#Reunitedpic.twitter.com/NegfMeOinQ
The Bulldogs were indeed a formidable force with Carr and Adams in 2012 and 2013 — Carr threw 87 touchdown passes to 15 interceptions in that time, and Adams caught 233 of Carr’s passes for 3,031 yards and 38 touchdowns.
Carr, as you would imagine, was pretty happy about the whole thing when it came down.
“It’s pretty much out there in the media already, but he’s a real good guy,” Adams said of his quarterback at the 2014 scouting combine. “He looks kind of like a… I don’t know, he comes of as kind of like a… I don’t know how to explain it. He has a really good personality. He’s a guy whose spirit keeps everybody up all the time. You might see the part of him where he looks like a leader all the time. But he’ll come to me and say, ‘I need a pick-me-up right here; I’m not feeling too good about this.’ Whether it’s life or on the field, he’s human just like the rest of us.
“Obviously, our coaching staff trusted him a lot to let him do his thing out there, and he called a lot of the plays. We ran the spread and the up-tempo offense, and he went out there and did his thing. I don’t know how many guys – me and [fellow receiver] Isaiah [Burse] definitely appreciate him. It got us here to the combine. I was fine with him being Batman – that’s what they called him – and I’ll be Robin if it gets me to the combine and gets me to the next level.”
“He’s the best,” Carr said of Adams at that same combine. “Some people say he’s not the fastest on tape, but I still haven’t seen him get caught on tape. He’ll definitely have one of, if not the best, vertical leaps. I’ve seen him dunk and he’s looking down through the rim. I don’t think that’s supposed to happen with how tall he is.”
Fresno State’s Davante Adams kisses the Mountain West trophy as Derek Carr looks on in the second half of an NCAA college football game in Fresno, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
When you dig up Fresno State tape from back in the day, the chemistry between Carr and Adams was pretty obvious.
This deep pass to Adams against Utah State in the 2013 Mountain West Conference Championship showed the timing between quarterback and receiver. Adams went off in his penultimate game with Carr, catching nine passes for 168 yards and a touchdown. (Isaiah Burse caught 17 passes for 132 yards and a touchdown in that game. The Bulldogs liked to throw the ball).
This fade touchdown in that same game amplified the idea that Carr understood what to do in the red zone — get the ball to Davante, and let him look down on the net.
And there’s no need to take extra time aligning quarterback and receiver on possession routes — they’ve already got that burned in from way back.
There was never any outward sign of tension between Rodgers and Adams, who became the most prolific quarterback-receiver duo in the Packers’ storied franchise history. Perhaps this just more about Davante Adams wanting to go home again, and the Raiders making that possible.
#Eagles won’t face #DavanteAdams in 2022 after the #Packers trade the All Pro WR to the #Raiders. #Adams is now the #NFL highest paid WR in history with his new 5-year, $141M deal.
Davante Adams get a new contract worth $141.25M over 5 years, source say. He gets an average of $28.25 average. https://t.co/YTAxHov0Rj
The Eagles will face the Packers in 2022, but Darius Slay won’t have to face Davante Adams after Green Bay traded the All Pro to the Raiders.
Las Vegas will now make Adams the highest paid wide receiver in NFL history.
The trade reunites Adams with his college quarterback Derek Carr. Adams and Carr played two seasons together at Fresno State.
Adams is the only player in NFL history with three seasons (2018, 2020-21) of 110-plus catches, 1,350-plus receiving yards and 11-plus receiving TDs.
He’s also one of only three players in league history to register 650-plus receptions, 8,000-plus receiving yards and 70-plus TD catches in his first eight seasons in the NFL (WRs Marvin Harrison and Larry Fitzgerald).
