Former NFL agent and executive dumps a huge bucket of cold water on all but one Davante Adams trade ideas
It's only Week 5, but sure enough, NFL trade rumors are kicking into high gear as we enter the final month of the deadline.And yet again, Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams is the subject of trade talks for the third year in a row. Said talks precede the 2022 trade that sent him […]
It's only Week 5, but sure enough, NFL trade rumors are kicking into high gear as we enter the final month of the deadline.
And yet again, Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams is the subject of trade talks for the third year in a row. Said talks precede the 2022 trade that sent him to Vegas, to begin with, and they're as rampant as ever after the latest report stating the Raiders are reaching out to teams in order to gauge interest in the All-Pro receiver.
Since then, teams like the New York Jets and New Orleans Saints have been linked as potential trade options and it makes absolute sense because the two quarterbacks Adams has had the most success with during his football career reside in those areas: Aaron Rodgers and Derek Carr.
However, there's also a business side to all of this, both on the player and team side and former NFL exec/agent and current analyst, Andrew Brandt explained how that works on Wednesday.
The team that trades for Davante Adams also has to deal with his 2024 salary and remaining salaries
Adams is set to make $16,980,000 in base salary over the 2024 season, which is paid out each week. So far, he's made $3,733,333.33 of that salary through four games, which leaves around $13,246,666.70 to be paid out over the remainder of the year.
Therefore, the acquiring team in a hypothetical trade would need to have the latter number in both cap room and cash amount. Right now the only team that has both those amounts is, yep, the Jets. They currently have over $16.8 million in cap room, per Over The Cap and more than $22.8 million in cash, per Spotrac.
There's also Adams' 2025 and 2026 base salaries, which are $35.640 million, apiece. Those numbers would certainly get reworked, but again, that requires moving parts, to an extent (restructures are typically required and can't be fought by players unless contractually agreed upon, beforehand).
Either way, it's not as simple as it appears on paper, especially when considering the capital needed e.g. draft picks, players, or whatever factor to help facilitate a trade. But hey, once again, the Jets have what's needed to strike a deal.
