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The Jets adding another former wide receiver who had a great deal of success with quarterback Aaron Rodgers from his time with the Green Bay Packers has been a familiar story throughout the past two offseasons.
And after a dispiriting two seasons for the Las Vegas Raiders, the prospect of Davante Adams – the best of the receivers Rodgers ever played with – being that player has grown. And there was some fuel added to the speculative fire by way of morning cable talk show chatter earlier this week.
But before there could be any determination if there was smoke let alone fire, the wide receiver distanced himself from those rumors.
“I’m actively on the Raiders,” Adams said on Wednesday’s episode of Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast, via The New York Post. “What do I look like sitting here talking to other people about being on another team? And that’s how I still feel about it right now.
“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,” Adams continued. “If that ever changes, if that got to a point where they weren’t feeling the same way, I ain’t done playing, so obviously we would figure out whatever we needed to figure out.”
The 31-year-old is entering the third year of a five-year, $140 million deal he signed with Las Vegas.
In addressing the rumors on the podcast, Adams said that if he would be “reunited with anybody” or “relocated” anywhere it would be to be with Rodgers, but he is not asking for that to happen and the rumors are not coming because of things he has put out there.
“But that’s not really my — there was a lot of that stuff going on last year in the media and them asking, ‘What are you gonna do about this? Are you thinking about going here?’ And they talk about whatever without me even being involved in it,” he said. “And it ended up getting all the way to the point where it got in the locker room, and people was thinking…
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Author : SNY
Publish date : 2024-07-18 01:20:00
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