Well, if you thought the beginning of the 2022 league year was going to quiet things down in the NFL, think again. Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield requesting a trade and the Eagles cutting defensive tackle Fletcher Cox would qualify for a big enough day on the NFL calendar, but Thursday night delivered yet another monumental trade. Just days after signing quarterback Aaron Rodgers to one of the biggest extensions in league history, the Packers followed things up by … trading his star receiver to Las Vegas.
Davante Adams is now a member of the Raiders, as Las Vegas sent its first- and second-round picks to Green Bay to acquire arguably the best receiver in football. Reports after the fact suggested that the relationship between Adams and the Packers was irreparably fractured after Green Bay used the franchise tag to retain Adams for 2022. Suddenly, at least for now, Allen Lazard is Aaron Rodgers’ top receiver.
On one side, I don’t love that the Packers are trading away Rodgers’ top receiver by a significant margin at a point when they’re all-in for a title. I’m sure GM Brian Gutekunst will add a wideout or two in the months to come, with guys like Julio Jones and William Fuller V still available in free agency and a talented crop of wideouts available in the draft, but the Packers are crying out for an impact wideout right now. If Adams was willing to retire or sit out multiple franchise tags, there’s not much they could have done. But after seeing how they were able to smooth things over with Rodgers, I might have been willing to push things and see what happened with Adams.
Instead, though, I want to focus on the Las Vegas side of things. I’m not optimistic we will look back on this deal in three years and think the Raiders feel great about it. You have to make a lot of assumptions to get this to turn out well for them in the seasons to come. It’s too easy to poke holes in those assumptions. It’s always fun to add a superstar, and I’m not sure I can fault the…
Source : espn
