Boomer Esiason is intensifying the hype surrounding a Davante Adams commerce.
Whereas showing on his day by day “Boomer & Gio” present on WFAN on Monday morning, the previous Jets quarterback advised that the star Las Vegas Raiders receiver may very well be traded within the subsequent month or two.
“I’m listening to — that that is going to occur, if it does occur — someplace in late August, early September,” Esiason mentioned. “I’m unsure about why it might take that lengthy.”
Esiason, whose 22-year run as an NFL analyst for CBS got here to an finish in April, shed perception into what he believes may very well be a path for Adams to disclose he desires out in Sin Metropolis.
“Davante isn’t going to come back out publicly and say, ‘I need to go away the Raiders,’” Esiason mentioned. “However you do hear on this huge receiver program [“Receiver” on Netflix], the place he does this, ‘I bought to get out of right here earlier than I get killed.’ He says that. That leads the viewer to consider that he desires out of Vegas.
“However I don’t see him saying that publicly. I don’t see him going to the media and saying, ‘Get me out of right here.’ I can see him saying to his agent, very similar to he did to Inexperienced Bay, the identical kind of factor.’”
Regardless of the Raiders going a measly 14-20 throughout his two seasons with the crew, Adams has performed nothing however insist that he desires to stay within the silver in black so far.
Nonetheless, regardless of the star receiver seldom opening his mouth to the media this offseason, hypothesis a few doable transfer has ramped up in the previous few days.
The primary tidal wave got here through Jets quarterback — and Adams’ former Packers teammate — Aaron Rodgers, who insinuated that he “can’t wait” to play with the wideout “once more” on Thursday.
Then, as Esiason referenced, Adams’ frustration with quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo was aired throughout episodes of the brand new Netflix highlight present, which was launched on July 10.
The 31-year-old Adams initially requested a transfer out west to be nearer to his household, which hails from Redwood Metropolis, Calif.
Though he’s performed with 5 completely different quarterbacks in solely two years in Vegas, Adams has remained a premier drive.
Whereas not essentially within the high echelon as throughout his peak in Inexperienced Bay, Adams has nonetheless collected at the very least 100 yards, 1,144 yards, eight touchdowns and 175 targets in every of the final two years.
As was famous on the WFAN program, Adams would carry a useless cap price of solely $7.85 million this yr and $15.7 million in 2025 if he had been traded at this level within the offseason.
If Adams had been to be on the transfer, the logical transfer would seem like to the Jets, who would search to accumulate a dependable celebrity subsequent to budding stud Garrett Wilson — and, most significantly, to reunite Rodgers along with his former operating mate.
Ought to he be placed on the block, different touchdown spots for Adams may embrace the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys or Arizona Cardinals.
