Davante Adams says Aaron Rodgers decision impacts his free agency
Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams have developed unbelievable chemistry throughout their run with the Packers. Rodgers is on observe to doubtlessly win his second straight MVP in 2021, whereas Adams is arguably the league’s high huge receiver.
It’s anybody’s guess as to the place Rodgers shall be subsequent season. After a tumultuous offseason, wherein he tried to pressure his means out of Inexperienced Bay, Rodgers admits he’s not ruling out any choices for subsequent 12 months, together with enjoying for the Packers or retiring.
That decision, already a monumental one for Inexperienced Bay, is much more important given Adams’s state of affairs. The five-time Professional Bowler turns into an unrestricted free agent after the season, and he made no bones about the truth that the Rodgers state of affairs impacts his personal decision.
“I imply, I am positive. … Naturally. Why wouldn’t it? I’m enjoying with the most effective quarterback to play the sport,” Adams mentioned throughout Wednesday’s press convention. “There’s nothing apart from having a connection that I constructed up with my man, and enjoying a sure means, so there’s that expectation, there’s that friendship constructed up in it.
“There’s quite a bit that goes into it, so clearly to a sure extent it received’t be the end-all, be-all, but it surely’ll positively be one thing I’m monitoring and being attentive to, to see the place his head is at in any case of this.”
Adams famous Thursday he and Rodgers are “having fun with the time that we do have with our teammates,” regardless of their unsure futures. Inexperienced Bay’s receiver added he “love[s] being a Packer.”
“However one factor. . . that we each do an ideal job with, I feel we have talked quite a bit about this 12 months, is making the primary factor the primary factor and simply actually having fun with the time that we do have with our teammates,” Adams mentioned. “I can not make a prediction as to what precisely will occur, however yeah I’m having fun with it.”
“Paying a little bit bit extra consideration, locking in and having fun with my time with my teammates now, since you by no means know. I have been in 4 NFC Championship video games, and it is a new staff yearly. So at this level I am simply making an attempt to take pleasure in it and go play soccer, and form of like Aaron mentioned, simply savor these moments as a result of you do not know what is going to occur. However I clearly I really like being a Packer, I really like being right here.”
Adams has adopted up his All-Professional 2020 season with one other spectacular run in 2021, catching 106 passes for 1,362 yards and 10 touchdowns. He could not match final 12 months’s 18-touchdown mark, however he’ll doubtless break his profession information for catches (115, set in ’20) and yards (1,386, ’18).
The Packers (12–3) wrap up the common season with NFC North video games vs. the Vikings and on the Lions. Inexperienced Bay has already clinched a playoff spot, and it at present occupies the highest spot within the NFC.
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