The Las Vegas Raiders are likely to miss the playoffs for the second straight season and the team will have a different head coach and general manager than they did heading into the 2023 season. Wide receiver Davante Adams is going to be 31 at the beginning of next season and it wouldn’t make much sense for him to stick around for a rebuild.
ESPN’s Dan Graziano was asked which star player he believes will be traded before the 2024 offseason and he expects the Raiders to make a deal.
“Davante Adams is the obvious one to me,” Graziano wrote in a December 20 column. “Even if the interim guys keep the jobs (which is possible), the Raiders are going to have a different coach and GM than they had when they acquired Adams and signed him to a contract extension. One of the reasons the star receiver went there was to play with quarterback Derek Carr, who’s no longer there.
“Adams has played the good soldier and not requested a trade, but I do think there’s a strong chance he gets to the offseason and he and/or the team decide it’s best to move on. Whether that means he ends up in New Orleans with Carr or New York with old buddy Aaron Rodgers or somewhere else entirely, the acquiring team would have to pay him $16.89 million guaranteed next season, and the Raiders would take on a dead money cap hit of around $23 million.”
The Raiders decided against trading Adams prior to the trade deadline but that was when Dave Ziegler was still general manager. Interim general manager Champ Kelly was assistant general manager when the team acquired the wide receiver but if he gets the full-time job this offseason, it remains to be seen what his vision for the team would be.
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