Davante Adams Trade Speculation: Where Will He Be Dealt?

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00:00One of the great things, DRS, about the way the NFL calendar works each and every week,

00:08when you get to Tuesday and Wednesday, speculation builds up.

00:11It's injury reports, it's practice reports, maybe it's trade rumors.

00:15That's the case now with Devontae Adams saying he prefers to be dealt from Las Vegas.

00:22Did let it be leaked yesterday what his preferred destinations are.

00:27It should be no surprise.

00:28New York, a reunion with the Jets and Aaron Rodgers, or back with his best bud from his

00:34Fresno State days and early on in Las Vegas, Derek Carr in New Orleans.

00:41Here is the rumored and reported interest in Devontae Adams.

00:45Just because he has listed his two preferred destinations does not mean that's all the

00:49Raiders are listening to at this moment.

00:52The Steelers were in the running for Brandon Aiyuk.

00:55They're interested.

00:56The Cowboys, not so much.

00:58They also don't really have the money to pay Devontae Adams salary, although it made

01:03a lot of sense for the Chiefs to be a reportedly interest team.

01:07They are not, not involved, not expected to be there.

01:11They're a divisional foe of Las Vegas.

01:14The commander's unknown, I guess, is what we're listing it as.

01:19DRS, what do you make of the speculation around Devontae Adams?

01:23Yeah, let's start here first with the Raiders.

01:26Coming into this season, oh, it's re-signed Minshew, and AOC is the other quarterback.

01:31They're going to battle it out in training camp.

01:33Let's see what happens here.

01:34And then you say you have Devontae Adams at wide receiver.

01:37And we all thought that the Raiders would absolutely flat-out stink this season.

01:40They're 2-2, and you know what?

01:41At the end of the season, they're going to flat-out stink.

01:44But let's go back to what they had.

01:46They had their own form of the triplets.

01:47Jacobs in the backfield, Devontae Adams at wide receiver with his best friend and quarterback,

01:51Derek Carr.

01:52I guarantee you, Ben, coming into this season, if that was still their trio, you'd be saying

01:56this, you know what?

01:57Chance the Raiders can make the playoffs here.

01:59Like what I'm saying, a couple years under already, building that process.

02:03This is the way you handle it.

02:04Now, it looks like all three are going to be gone, and they're going to be terrible.

02:06Now, as we say, where does he want to go?

02:08Of course, wide receivers, quarterbacks, cornerbacks, whatever it might be, they would love to pick

02:13where they go.

02:14But let's understand this.

02:15Devontae Adams makes a lot of money on his contract right now.

02:18You know what happens where Devontae goes, yeah, I'm going to pick my team.

02:21I'm going to go to the Jets.

02:22And, oh, Jets, by the way, when you trade me, you see how the other wide receivers are

02:25getting paid.

02:26I don't have any more guaranteed money left on my contract.

02:28Yes, it's like $35 million.

02:29Why don't you say you guarantee that and bump my number up even more than that?

02:34Who's going to want to pay for that?

02:35Oh, Devontae Adams is 26 years old in his prime.

02:38No, he's in his 30s here, still in his prime.

02:40But how many more years does he have being effective, dominant, number one wide receiver?

02:45That's the first thing.

02:46And also, let's start with the New York Jets, where he actually wants to go to.

02:50It doesn't make any sense.

02:52Garrett Wilson was drafted to be your long-term number one option, and he's a quality wide

02:56receiver.

02:57So are we saying that Alan Rodgers already put out, hey, look, I don't think Garrett

03:00can play football here.

03:02Let's bring in Mike Williams.

03:03I need another wide receiver on the opposite side.

03:05Might as well cut him loose, too.

03:06You already brought in Alan Lazard and everybody else.

03:09It doesn't make sense.

03:11They're not one player away, the New York Jets.

03:12You know where they're one player away?

03:14Get some help on the offensive line.

03:15If the Jets instead of going, you know what, Devontae, we're not going to spend money

03:17or trade for you.

03:18We're going to go trade for two legitimate offensive linemen so my quarterback doesn't

03:23get beaten to a pulp on Sunday afternoons.

03:26How about that?

03:27So just starting with the Jets, it makes no sense to get Devontae Adams on the Jets.

03:32Why would you do that?

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