“I had the greatest quarterback to play with at Green Bay, but…”: Davante Adams says leaving the Packers was a really tough decision

“I had the greatest quarterback to play with at Green Bay, but…”: Davante Adams says leaving the Packers was a really tough decision

Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers

The Green Bay Packers had a tough choice to make. Either let their best and most dramatic quarterback Aaron Rodgers go and spread the money around or retain Aaron at any cost and then try to cut costs as much as possible. They took the second option and had to pay dearly for it.

Davante Adams is undoubtedly one of the best wide receivers going around at this point in time. So when he announced that he will not play under the franchise tag something had to give as Green Bay had already dedicated a lot of funds towards retaining Rodgers.

Davante Adams is all set to make it big for the Raiders

Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams
Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams

As expected, the Packers had to trade Davante to the Las Vegas Raiders who offered a blockbuster contract to the star WR. According to Ian Rapoport, they offered Davante a five-year, $141.25 million contract which eventually makes him the new highest-paid wide receiver in the NFL.

On Tuesday’s introductory news conference at the Raiders’ training facility, Davante had a few things to say about his new team. He stated that before he signed a deal with Raiders, he had chats with Derek Carr. “As things progressed, obviously we communicated multiple times a week. Once we got to a point where it was something that could be realistic and not just a thought, we started to put a little plan together,” he said.

“I was still back in Green Bay at that point. I was still weighing my options. It was really an idea up until it was done,” Adams said. “Because it’s never easy to make it happen. You see it in the NBA all the time, guys all the time get where they want to be any type of way they have to do it,” he added.

“Obviously, in Green Bay, I had the greatest quarterback to play the game. … But things change sometimes. It’s not the first time an impactful player in an organization had to leave,” Adams said while talking about Rodgers. It will be interesting to see how Adams perform in the coming season.

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