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Adams’ agents call trade speculation ‘baseless’

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Last updated: 2024/07/16 at 10:43 PM
BigP Published July 16, 2024
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  • Paul Gutierrez, ESPN Staff WriterJul 16, 2024, 04:16 PM ET

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      Paul Gutierrez joined NFL Nation in 2013 and serves as its Las Vegas Raiders reporter. He has a multi-platform role – writing on ESPN.com, television appearances on NFL Live and SportsCenter, and podcast and radio appearances. Before coming to ESPN, Gutierrez spent three years at CSN Bay Area as a multi-platform reporter, covering the Raiders and Oakland Athletics as well as anchoring the SportsNet Central cable news show. Gutierrez votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame and is also a member of the Professional Football Writers of America and currently serves as the PFWA’s Las Vegas chapter president. He is also a member of the California Chicano News Media Association and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Gutierrez has authored three books: Tommy Davis’ Tales from the Dodgers Dugout, 100 Things Raiders Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die and If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Raiders Sideline, Locker Room and Press Box with Lincoln Kennedy. You can follow Paul on Twitter @PGutierrezESPN

HENDERSON, Nev. — The agents for Las Vegas Raiders receiver Davante Adams shut down rampant rumors and reports Tuesday that their client, a three-time first-team All-Pro and potential future Hall of Famer, was on the trading block.

“This is baseless, unfounded speculation, and Davante is expected to be with the Raiders as there has been absolutely no trade talk — period,” agents Kenny Chapman and Frank Bauer told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Aaron Rodgers, Adams’ former quarterback with the Green Bay Packers who now plays with the New York Jets stoked the rumor mill last week at the American Century Championship golf tournament in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada, saying, “I love Davante, I can’t wait to play with him … again.”

Rodgers last season hinted several times about a potential reunion, presumably with the Jets.

Davante Adams’ agents shut down rampant trade rumors around their client Tuesday, calling the speculation “baseless” and “unfounded.” Cooper Neill/Getty Images

Adams, entering his 11th NFL season and his third with the Raiders, came to Las Vegas in a blockbuster trade with the Packers for first- and second-round draft picks in March 2022 not only to be closer to his family in the Bay Area of California but also to reunite with his college quarterback at Fresno State, Derek Carr. But Carr was released after the 2022 season, Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler were fired as coach and general manager, respectively, on Halloween last fall, and Adams has been visibly frustrated in games.

Because even as Adams, who signed a five-year, $140 million contract with Las Vegas, has caught a combined 203 passes for 2,660 yards and 22 touchdowns the past two seasons, his 11.1 yards-per-catch average last year was the second lowest of his career, while his eight touchdown receptions was the second fewest he has had in a season in which he has played at least 16 games. And the Raiders have a combined record of just 14-20.

“The frustration comes in midseason, when we haven’t made the progress that we need,” Adams said last month. “At this point, you’re not a very mature or experienced football player if you’re getting frustrated in mandatory minicamp. Obviously, I get frustrated at every play if it doesn’t work, like, to a certain degree, but it’s not frustration where you’re losing hope in your teammates or yourself or the potential of what you can do as a team.

“It’s more like, I got a standard and definitely everybody in this circle knows that I’ve a very high standard for myself, so if I run a go route and [the] ball is overthrown, I’m going to be probably cussing on the sideline for a second.”

Adams, currently starring in Netflix’s “Receiver” series, is shown doing exactly that on misfires last season by quarterbacks Jimmy Garoppolo and Aidan O’Connell, at one point saying on the sideline that he needed to “get out of here before I get killed,” while lamenting the series of hard hits he was enduring.

Raiders coach Antonio Pierce has leaned on the receiver as a foundational option going forward, and general manager Tom Telesco said of Adams, a six-time Pro Bowl selection, at February’s scouting combine that “he’s a Raider.”

Adams’ agents concur.

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