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How many years did Davante Adams play for the Packers? ›

All-Pro wide receiver Davante Adams faced a career-defining decision during the 2022 offseason after the Green Bay Packers, his football home of eight seasons (2014-2021), franchise tagged him.

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In 2022, Davante Adams made headlines with his transition to the Las Vegas Raiders, securing a monumental five-year contract worth $141.25 million that sees him earn around $28 million a year.

After contract negotiations failed between the Packers and Adams during the 2022 offseason, he was traded to the Raiders for a first-round and second-round draft pick. Adams then signed a five-year, $141.25 million dollar contract that made him the highest-paid wide receiver at the time.

"At the time when I was (in Green Bay), I hadn't necessarily seen enough to say this is for sure what I should do," Adams said of his decision to leave the Packers.

Davante Adams had 38 catches for 446 yards and scored 3 touchdowns in 16 games in his rookie season in 2014.

There were only seven school periods, so his day was longer than everyone else's. Brown signed Adams up for four-hour SAT sessions on Saturdays (“He stayed pissed off at me,” she says). He took the SAT twice and the ACT once. He finished high school with a GPA in the low 3s.

Spotrac has Adams' cap hit at $25.35 million, which would still be near the league high.

Villarreal and Adams have two daughters. Daija Leigh was born in September 2019 and Dezi Lynn was born in April 2022.

Mahomes inked a 10-year, $450 million extension with the Chiefs during the 2020 offseason. The three-time Super Bowl MVP and the team reworked the deal last September so that Mahomes would make $208.1 million from 2023-26.

Who is the richest wide receiver in the NFL? ›

Eagles superstar A.J. Brown, who recently signed a three-year, $96 million contract extension with the Eagles, tops the list as the highest-paid NFL receiver at $32 million. Trailing Brown is Lions receiver Amon-Ra St.

The two sides weren't able to find a number that worked on both ends, as the receiver claimed that the contract that Green Bay offered him that offseason “barely made [him] want to play for them” in 2021.

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Adams was frustrated with Green Bay and wanted to be dealt. The Raiders were rumored to be his desired destination in part because he was close friends and college teammates with then-Raiders quarterback Derek Carr and the fact that Las Vegas is close to his hometown of East Palo Alto, California.

He played college football for the California Golden Bears (where he set several career passing records, including lowest single-season and career interception rates), before being selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft by the Green Bay Packers, spending 18 seasons with the team.

In the 2014 NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers hit the jackpot when they selected star wide receiver, Davante Adams. Hailing from Fresno State University, Adams was the fifty-third overall pick.

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Adams spent eight seasons with the Packers after being a second-round draft pick out of Fresno State in 2014. He became a multi-time Pro Bowler and All-Pro and is among the team's all-time statistical leaders in several wide receiving categories.