Steelers Trail Jets in Davante Adams Odds
The Pittsburgh Steelers have the third-highest odds (+600) to land Las Vegas Raiders star wide receiver Davante Adams in a blockbuster trade, according to DraftKings Sportsbook. They’re significantly behind the top two teams, however — the New Orleans Saints (+200) and New York Jets (-120).
Before the season, there were rumors that Adams wanted out of Las Vegas, and that indeed is the case. On Tuesday, the star wide receiver requested for Las Vegas to trade him.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Adams prefers to play for the New York Jets or New Orleans Saints due to his past connections with quarterback Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay and quarterback Derek Carr in college at Fresno State.
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The Jets appear to be the front-runner in the Adams sweepstakes right now.
“My biggest takeaway from conversations with teams around the league? Many involved or have checked in believe the Jets are the team that will get this trade done,” Dianna Russini of The Athletic wrote on X.
Adams, who turns 32 in December, is a six-time Pro Bowl selection and three-time first-team All-Pro. Adams was teammates with Rodgers in Green Bay for the first eight years of his NFL career. Reuniting with Rodgers seems very likely.
“I’ll answer like this, if I’m going to be reunited with anybody, it would be Aaron, okay? But or be, you know, relocated, and be anywhere it would be with Aaron,” Adams said on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast in July.
“There was a lot of that stuff going on last year in the media and them asking, you know, ‘What are you going to do about this? Are you thinking about going here?’ and they talk about whatever without me even being involved in [the conversation]. And it ended up getting all the way to the point where it got in the locker room, and people was thinking that it was, you know, I was putting it out there to force (a trade). And I’m like, ‘Y’all just don’t understand man.’ You know, I hate to say it like this because it makes me sound like I’m trying to put myself on a pedestal..but when you’re the level, a certain level of player, it don’t have to come from you. And most of the time it’s not coming from you.”
The Steelers have been searching for help at wide receiver since trading Diontae Johnson to the Carolina Panthers for cornerback Donte Jackson in March. Steelers general manager Omar Khan went all-in this offseason to acquire San Francisco 49ers star Brandon Aiyuk and came up short.
Russini reports that the Steelers are interested in trading for Adams.
“There have been discussions and both sides are keeping an open line of communication,” Russini wrote on X.
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