It's only just starting to sink in for most fans—Davante Adams is a member of the Las Vegas Raiders.
For insight on the Raiders' blockbuster trade for Davante Adams, listen below:
The All-Pro wide receiver becomes the highest profile player on a roster that suddenly has increased aspirations coming into the 2022 NFL season. That speaks to the level of talent that Davante Adams possesses. The newly minted Raiders addition spoke candidly in a report via Vincent Bonsignore about the trade that shook up the NFL.
“It was really an idea up until it was done,” Adams said. “Because it’s never easy to make it happen. You see it in the NBA all the time, guys all the time get where they want to be any type of way they have to do it.”
The player empowerment movement that loomed large over the NBA hasn't exactly seeped in the NFL just yet. Ever since LeBron James made The Decision to jump ship and make an entire spectacle of it, other players have followed suit. We've seen it most recently with James Harden, not once but twice moving to a team that he personally desired within the past two years.
But in the NFL, even a player like Davante Adams, with a legitimate case as the best wide receiver in the league, doesn't have the seismic sway to easily dictate where he wants to go. He opened up more on the slow and steady progress towards getting a deal done and how it manifested itself over the course of several weeks.
“As things progressed, obviously we communicated multiple times a week,” Adams said at Tuesday’s introductory news conference at the Raiders’ training facility. “Once we got to a point where it was something that could be realistic and not just a thought, we started to put a little plan together. I was still back in Green Bay at that point. I was still weighing my options.”
To Davante Adams, it was a dream come true. On top of reuniting with his college quarterback in Derek Carr, he's also vocal about suiting up for a Raiders team he grew infatuated with even before he set foot in the NFL.
“I grew up in East Palo Alto (California). I’ve been a Raiders fan all my life,” Adams said. “It was a dream to be a Raider. I said I wanted to be an NFL star, and I was wearing a Charles Woodson jersey at the time. I guess you could say it was meant to be.”
While there's a significant drop-off going from back-to-back MVP Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay to Derek Carr in Las Vegas, Davante Adams is ready to embrace the change.
“Obviously, in Green Bay, I had the greatest quarterback to play the game. But things change sometimes. It’s not the first time an impactful player in an organization had to leave.”
It was a long time coming but Davante Adams is ready to make some noise in Las Vegas. Raiders fans certainly hope he's the jackpot acquisition they've been missing.
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