The Green Bay Packers need to fix their wide receiver position this offseason, and there’s good reason to believe a reunion with Davante Adams could be on the table.
Can’t you imagine what Adams would look like in Green and Gold? It’s not that hard to imagine, actually, because the Packers know exactly who and what they would get from Adams. Remember, they selected him with the 53rd pick in the 2014 NFL Draft out of Fresno State and he slowly but surely became one of the best wide receivers in the league in Green Bay.
Much of that was due to the supernatural connection he had with four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers, of course, but Adams became a beast on his own merits.
He is one of the best route runners in the NFL and after an initial struggle with drops early in his career, he has become one of the best football receivers in the NFL. He and Rodgers were a deadly combination on the back shoulder fade, but they really could do it all together.
Adams played sparingly with Jordan Love, who was a backup at the time, and he was traded to the Las Vegas Raiders before Rodgers was traded to the New York Jets.
Rodgers and Adams ended up with the Jets for one of the most disappointing reunions in NFL history, and now both appear poised to leave the dysfunctional New York organization.
Adams, in particular, has two years remaining on his current contract, with $35.6 million owed to him annually. That’s a ton of money to pay an aging player for a franchise that is certainly entering a rebuild with a new head coach and front office. There is an exit in Adams’ contract, however, would give the Jets significant dead cap savings, so the smart money is on both parting ways this offseason and Adams will become a free agent.
Where he’ll end up is anyone’s guess, but he recently spoke with Kay Adams and analyzed the Packers’ offseason needs. One of those needs, he said, was a reliable veteran pass catcher.
“You have to see what happens [Romeo] Doubs and Christian [Watson]obviously Romeo has had a few plays this year where he got banged up a little bit and hit his head on the floor, so to see where he’s at with that. And you know, you never know. It’s kind of that situation where it can last, you know, a week, or it can last, you know, it can extend longer than that,” Adams explained. “Then we’ll see.” I pray for him anyway. But yeah, I just think it kind of depends on the health of the team, and it seems like right now they might need some receiver help in some way , just based on what they have available,” Adams said. “And you know, maybe a veteran or something in there. I don’t know, we’ll see.
If it wasn’t Adams giving a snide speech to Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst, then what would it be? All of this, of course, depends on the Jets releasing Adams and, in a way, it also depends on Rodgers’ future.
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If Rodgers stays with the Jets, Adams may want to recruit and stay as well. If Rodgers leaves New York but wants to continue playing, perhaps Adams will continue to follow him. In the event that Adams is cut by the Jets and wants to forge his own path, returning to the excellent path he once blazed in Green Bay could be a very intriguing idea for both parties.
A Davante Adams-Packers reunion would make sense
Adams knows head coach Matt LaFleur and has played with Love. He’s comfortable with the organization and he knows what it means to play in Green Bay. He’d also be the type of heady, consistent veteran that a quarterback like Love could really use, especially since he’s seemingly regressed a bit in 2024.
That said, even if Gutekunst can engineer a reunion with Adams, that can’t be his only move out wide this 2025 offseason. The Packers have invested heavily in Love, and they’ve also invested a lot of resources in their defense. The latter has paid off as new defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley appears to have this unit headed in the right direction by 2025.
What Gutekunst put around Love was essentially a handful of depth players who never fulfilled their potential in 2024. Christian Watson can’t be counted on to stay healthy, and he will miss most of 2025. Romeo Doubs and Jayden Reed are consistently inconsistent, and Dontayvion Wicks has a ton of potential, but that’s still all he is right now.
They’re actors, and actors don’t win Super Bowls.
One way the Packers can improve is through the draft. Gutekunst really needs to continue to inject talent into this wide receiver room in hopes that a superstar or two emerges to help Love. The other would be free will, and Adams can be part of that. Another very intriguing option would be Tee Higgins, but what about the two? If the Packers want to seriously compete in the Super Bowl in 2025, this is the type of offseason Gutekunst needs to have when it comes to his wide receiver room.
