If the Las Vegas Raiders commerce WR Davante Adams, it’s unlikely to happen over the subsequent few days. ESPN’s Adam Schefter believes it’ll be roughly one other week earlier than any decision to his scenario happens. Showing on the Pat McAfee present Wednesday, Schefter stated the window to commerce Adams this week has probably handed.
“Right here’s the place it stands in my thoughts,” Schefter advised the present. “We’re now in Wednesday afternoon, 1:15 japanese. The very fact there was no Davante Adams commerce this week would inform you any Davante Adams commerce will wait one other week now. As a result of within the NFL, most each large transfer…goes to happen Monday and Tuesday whereas groups are developing with their recreation plans.”
That’s a good evaluation. Buying and selling for Adams this late within the week would make it laborious to get him prepared for a Week 6 recreation. Nonetheless, that is perhaps a moot level contemplating Adams nonetheless appears to be coping with a hamstring harm. Maybe that may change the commerce window if Adams is assumed to be out this week even when he had been to be dealt to a brand new workforce.
Total, trades of this magnitude occur on Monday or Tuesday. The Steelers and Miami Dolphins agreed to a deal for FS Minkah Fitzpatrick on a Monday night time and even then, Fitzpatrick was in a race to rise up to hurry for the Steelers’ subsequent recreation.
Different elements might be slowing Adams’ market down. He’s been linked to the New York Jets and New Orleans Saints, two groups which have had main storylines the final 24 hours. The Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh whereas Saints QB Derek Carr is anticipated to overlook a number of weeks with an indirect harm suffered in a Monday night time loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. The Raiders are additionally reportedly hesitant to eat a few of Adams’ wage to assist facilitate a commerce, although they may proceed to pay his base wage whereas he sits out.
All these elements counsel that the Steelers may have a stronger hand. It’s not clear in the event that they’re prepared to satisfy the Raiders’ second-round asking worth however they’ve a necessity for receiver and want to spice up their sputtering offense. As ordinary, media experiences have been laborious to belief. Final week, the prevailing knowledge was a commerce would happen this week. Now, we’ll probably wait till subsequent Monday or Tuesday to see if something will get completed.
