The New York Jets have acquired wide receiver Davante Adams from the Las Vegas Raiders in exchange for a conditional draft pick. Per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport: “The #Raiders are completing a trade of star WR Davante Adams to the #Jets, sources say. Back with his good friend, Aaron Rodgers. As Las Vegas moves on.”

Adams has missed the last three games with the Raiders due to a hamstring injury, and must pass a physical to complete the trade. Multiple reports state that he had requested a trade at the beginning of this month.

The Jets will send the Raiders a conditional third-round pick, which can become a second-round selection if certain conditions are met.  The move also reunites Adams, 31, with Jets’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who played together on the Green Bay Packers from 2014-2021. In eight seasons together on the Packers, Rodgers and Adams connected 622 times for 7,590 yards and 69 touchdowns, and Rodgers won three of his four MVPs with Adams.

Adams, a six-time Pro Bowl selection, was the second-round pick of Green Bay in 2014. He spent nine seasons with the Packers before he was traded to the Raiders in March 2022.  The WR caught 103 passes for 1,516 yards and a league-leading 14 touchdowns last season; in 153 career games, and has 18 catches for 209 yards and one touchdown through three games so far this season before being injured.  In 2020, Adams led all receivers with 18 touchdowns, and the next year he led the league in receptions and receiving yards.

The Jets will face the Pittsburgh Steelers (4-2) at 8:20 p.m. EDT Sunday in Pittsburgh.

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