Raiders' Josh McDaniels provides update on WR Davante Adams injury

The Raiders experienced a bit of a scare today when star wide receiver Davante Adams limped off the practice field with what appeared to be a right leg injury, according to Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Luckily, it appears that disaster was averted as head coach Josh McDaniels claimed the injury was not “crazy serious,” per the staff at NFL.com.

McDaniels told reporters today that, after a big hit took Adams out of practice, the veteran wideout had avoided a serious injury. Although the lick was bad enough to force Adams off the field, McDaniels asserted that it was a clean “bang-bang play” devoid of any ill intent.

Adams has been a first-team All-Pro selection in each of the past three years and a Pro Bowler for the last six. The recognition becomes that much more impressive when you take into account that he missed at least one game in five of those six seasons, missing 10 games over his final five years in Green Bay.

He rebounded in a big way during his first season away from the Packers. Last year in Las Vegas, Adams played in every game of the season for the first time since 2016 and started every game of the season for the first time in his career. In doing so, he recorded his fourth 100-catch season, his second straight season with more than 1,500 receiving yards, and led the league in touchdown receptions for the second time in three years.

Adams has proved that he can make an impact even while dealing with nagging injuries that hold him out of games here and there. Still, the Raiders would like to see their most-productive receiver enter the season with no restrictions. Although McDaniels’ assessment doesn’t seem to reflect that situation, it appears that the worst-case scenario has been avoided for now.