Insider questions if Jets can trade for Raiders' Davante Adams this offseason

It was reported this past weekend that the New York Jets will once again explore trading for Las Vegas Raiders All-Pro wide receiver Davante Adams this coming offseason to reunite Adams with quarterback Aaron Rodgers. 

NBC Sports NFL insider Peter King sounds skeptical the Jets will be able to bring the former Green Bay Packers teammates together before the start of next season. 

"If the value for Adams in the 2022 trade from Green Bay to Vegas was first- and second-round picks, you’d think the value in 2024 would be less, but what exactly? My guess is a first-round pick or two second-round picks," King explained in his latest "Football Morning in America" column. "The Jets will argue that Adams' value shouldn’t be that much because he turns 32 during the season next year and will be playing his 11th year."

Adams and Rodgers played alongside each other from 2014 through the 2021 season before Green Bay traded Adams to a Raiders team willing to give him a five-year, $141.25M contract. Since the completion of that trade, the Raiders have parted ways with Derek Carr, Adams' college quarterback at Fresno State, and team owner Mark Davis more recently fired both head coach Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler. 

As for Rodgers, he may not play again this season with the Jets at 4-6 as he continues his recovery from the torn Achilles he suffered in Week 1. The future Hall of Famer who turns 40 years old on Dec. 2 accepted a massive pay cut this past summer presumably to play for the Jets through at least next season, so it makes sense the club would take significant steps this coming spring to improve what is one of the league's most disappointing offenses of the fall months. 

"Vegas will have the leverage, I think, because the Raiders will know Rodgers wants Adams badly, and the Jets will be all-in for 2024 and ’25," King continued. "If the Jets give their first-rounder next year, it’d mean no picks till somewhere around 75 overall in 2024—and the Jets will have offensive-line holes to fill next year. Or would it be enough for the Jets to trade one of their good defensive pieces plus a third-rounder for Adams?"

Rodgers seemingly got the Jets to make multiple personnel decisions this past offseason and should be good to go for next September assuming he doesn't try to play before Week 18 of the ongoing season. As much as Adams and Rodgers may want to play together once more, the Raiders could and should demand a high asking price for the 30-year-old considering the Jets likely will be desperate to build a winner coming off what's become a letdown of a season for Gang Green.