The 2024 Jets - one step closer to being the New York Packers?
According to multiple reports, the Jets are expected to finalize a trade sometime Tuesday that would bring wide receiver Davante Adams to Gang Green, reuniting him with Aaron Rodgers, Allen Lazard, and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett - a quartet that, in three years together in Green Bay from 2019-21, helped the Packers reach back-to-back NFC Championship Games and Rodgers win back-to-back NFL MVP Awards.
The reported return is a conditional third-round pick that can become a second-rounder if Adams is either a first- or second-team All-Pro this season, or is on the active roster if the Jets reach the AFC championship game or Super Bowl.
Adams, 31, is a six-time Pro Bowler and three-time All-Pro with over 10,000 yards receiving and 1K in five of his last six years, but he has been unhappy in Vegas under new head coach Antonio Pierce, and has been inactive for the last three games after Pierce made a comment that 'some players made business decisions, and we will have to as well' after the Raiders' Week 3 loss to Carolina.
Prior to that, Adams was on pace for another strong season, with 18 catches for 209 yards and a touchdown in three games.
Now, however, he will join interim coach Jeff Ulbrich's squad that has seen Garrett Wilson (41 catches, 399 yards, three TD) and Lazard (26-354-5) put up good numbers but other actual receivers account for just 14 catches in six games - 10 of those from Mike Williams, who was publicly called out by Rodgers after Monday's loss for his role in a game-closing interception.