This past weekend, it was reported that the New York Jets will look into trading for Las Vegas Raiders All-Pro wide receiver Davante Adams this offseason in order to reunite Adams with quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
According to NBC Sports NFL insider Peter King, the Jets will be unable to reunite the former Green Bay Packers teammates before the start of the next season.
“If the value for Adams in the 2022 trade from Green Bay to Vegas was first- and second-round picks, you’d think the value in 2024 would be less, but what exactly?””I’d guess a first-round pick or two second-round picks,” King explained in his latest “Football Morning in America” column. “The Jets will argue that Adams’ value should be reduced because he will be 32 during the season next year and will be playing in his 11th year.”
Adams and Rodgers were teammates from 2014 until the 2021 season, when Green Bay traded Adams to a Raiders team willing to pay him a five-year, $141.25 million contract. The Raiders have parted ways with Derek Carr, Adams’ college quarterback at Fresno State, and team owner Mark Davis has recently fired both head coach Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler.
Rodgers, meanwhile, may not play again this season with the Jets, who are 4-6, as he recovers from a torn Achilles he suffered in Week 1. The future Hall of Famer, who turns 40 on Dec. 2, accepted a massive pay cut this summer presumably to play for the Jets at least through next season, so it stands to reason that the team would take significant steps this spring to improve what has been one of the league’s most disappointing offenses in the fall months.
“Vegas will have the leverage, I think, because the Raiders will know Rodgers wants Adams badly, and the Jets will be all-in for 2024 and ’25,” he went on to say. “If the Jets trade their first-round pick next year, there will be no picks until around 75 overall in 2024—and the Jets will have offensive-line holes to fill next year.” Or would it be enough for the Jets to give up one of their top defensive players in exchange for Adams and a third-round pick?”
Rodgers appears to have swayed the Jets’ personnel decisions this offseason and should be ready for next September assuming he doesn’t try to play before Week 18 of the current season. As much as Adams and Rodgers may want to play together again, the Raiders could and should demand a high asking price for the 30-year-old, given that the Jets are likely to be desperate to build a winner after a disappointing season for Gang Green.
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