Pack trades WR Davante Adams to Raiders

[UOK]

LOL

[HisRoyalSweetness]

A few more details of the proposed trade:

The Las Vegas Raiders are in the final stages of trading for the Packers superstar receiver and giving him a new five-year, $141.25 million contract, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported. Adams will make a per-year average of $28.25 million.

The deal is expected to involve Las Vegas sending back a first-round pick, potentially more draft selections and a player, Rapoport added.

Full article: https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-tradin ... 1-25m-deal

The AFC West is really stacking up some bigtime players.

[Ditka’s dictaphone]

Not looking good for Mr MVP

[Umbali]

This is what happens when your QB takes so much money that the team cant afford their other stars lol

[Grizzled]

I wonder if Erin is going to throw a snit now that his fave is gone. Plus St. Brown to the Bears (ok, I doubt that might upset any Packers too much). Carr is happy, reunited with his college WR.

[Xee]

If this is true, it makes it even better:

[Arkansasbear]

Great watch them use that pick to snag Watson.

[The Marshall Plan]

LOL

I love it.

[Moriarty]

Eh.

Losing him will be a modest step back in 2022 (but they're still going to be a better team than the Bears).
But getting nice picks (cheaper than Adams) is going to help them down the road to delay the inevitable blow-up.

I don't know that this hurts them that much or helps the Bears that much.

[Ditka’s dictaphone]

Guess I’m rooting for the Raiders next season then, get those picks nice and late

[HisRoyalSweetness]

Eh.

Losing him will be a modest step back in 2022 (but they're still going to be a better team than the Bears).
But getting nice picks (cheaper than Adams) is going to help them down the road to delay the inevitable blow-up.

I don't know that this hurts them that much or helps the Bears that much.

That assumes the Packers will spend the additional draft picks wisely. I mean this is the team with a future HoF QB who spent a 1st round pick on Jordan Love! Their record on drafting WRs hasn't exactly been stellar in the past decade either. They've used a lot of draft picks on the position, albeit mostly on Day 3, and Adams is the only one who has been truly successful with Valdes-Scantling doing OK.

• 2021 R3 Amari Rogers (Status: Still Active)
  Career: 1 Year, 16 Games, 4 receptions, 45 yards.

• 2018 R4 J'Mon Moore (Status: Career Over)
  Career: 1 Year, 12 Games, 2 receptions, 15 yards

• 2018 R5 Marquez Valdes-Scantling (Status: Still Active - FA)
  Career: 4 Years, 59 Games, 123 receptions, 2153 yards, 13 TD
  Season Averages: 15 Games, 34 receptions, 538 yards, 3 TD

• 2018 R6 Equanimeous St. Brown (Status: Still Active - Signed by the Bears)
  Career: 3 Years, 37 Games, 37 receptions, 543 yards, 1 TD
  Season Averages: 12 Games, 12 receptions, 181 yards, 0 TD

• 2017 R5 DeAngelo Yancey (Status: Career Over)
  Career: Never made a roster

• 2017 R7 Malachi Dupre (Status: Career Over)
  Career: 1 Game (with Arizona), No Stats

• 2016 R5 Trevor Davis (Status: Career Over - 2 Years + 2 Games with Green Bay)
  Career: 3 Years (did not play in 2018), 43 Games, 16 receptions, 205 yards, 1 TD
  Season Averages: 14 Games, 5 receptions, 68 yards, O TD

• 2014 R2 Davante Adams

• 2014 R5 Jared Abbrederis (Status: Career Over - 2 Years with Green Bay)
  Career: 3 Years, 22 Games, 13 receptions, 163 yards, 0 TD
  Season Averages: 7 Games, 4 receptions, 54 yards, 0 TD

• 2014 R7 Jeff Janis (Status: Career Over - 4 Years with Green Bay)
  Career: 4 Years, 51 Games, 17 receptions, 200 yards, 1 TD
  Season Averages: 13 Games, 4 receptions, 50 yards, 0 TD

• 2013 R7 Charles Johnson (Status: Career Over - 0 Years with Green Bay)
  Career: 3 Years, 39 Games, 60 receptions, 834 yards, 2 TD
  Season Averages: 13 Games, 20 receptions, 278 yards, 1 TD

• 2013 R7 Kevin Dorsey (Status: Career Over)
  Career: 1 Year, 3 Games, 1 reception, 4 yards

Extra draft picks are nice, but only make a difference if the GM uses them on good players. Finding the superstars isn't easy. The Packers landed one with Adams and now he's gone. The Packers may get lucky again or they might spend all the draft compensation they get on a bunch of players whose impact doesn't come close to the production they got from Adams. Only time will tell...

[wab]

The Packers typically don't draft very well. Rodgers covers up a lot of that stink.

[Boris13c]

this trade had me scratching my head ... I thought once the drama with diva Rodgers was over, everything else would follow

so was the relationship between Rodgers and Adams not as rosy as the Packers painted it? there was no doubt they played very well together but there must have been other things going on I guess

[Xee]

I'm wondering the same thing, @Boris13c. I think the fact that Rodgers hasn't come out and said anything about the trade says something in itself.