The Las Vegas Raiders have traded wide receiver Davante Adams to the New York Jets in exchange for a conditional third-round pick. (AP Photo/David Becker)
Davante Adams trade news has finally been announced! The Raiders traded Davante Adams to the New York Jets on Tuesday morning, October 15th.
As many suspected, he’s heading to New York to reunite with former quarterback Aaron Rodgers — once again wearing green, but this time for the Jets and their is trying to get a 2-4 season back on track.
Let’s take a look at what this news means for your fantasy football team.
Garrett Wilson and Davante Adams both look like WR2s for the rest of the season
There’s no doubt that it took some time for Aaron Rodgers and Garrett Wilson to develop a better rapport, but in Weeks 5 and 6, fantasy football managers got a taste of their true abilities. Ta. Wilson finished as a top-six fantasy receiver with over 100 receiving yards and one score in each of those games, although he failed to complete his 33 total targets.
Obviously, Adams’ presence means a reduction in Wilson’s target share. In each season that Aaron Rodgers started and ended with Adams in the lineup (2016, 2018-2021), Adams was targeted on 19.5% or more of his routes, per PFF. In fact, it achieved a target achievement rate of 29.5% or more on the routes it traveled in three of those five seasons. Simply put, Rodgers is looking for Adams early and often, which will likely limit the ceiling of both wideouts going forward.
The good news for Wilson? He will certainly lose targets to Adams, but that could be good news for the efficiency of the targets he receives. Since being drafted in 2021, Wilson has been double-teamed in coverage and seen 83 targets, the fourth-most among wide receivers during that span.
What Adams has in this Jets offense, of course, is the quality of targets he receives. According to PFF, Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell rank 27th or lower out of 35 quarterbacks with at least 250 attempts over the past two seasons. This would rank him 62nd out of 96 eligible wide receivers in low catchable target percentage (70.6%).
What he loses in the share of “elite” targets he will likely make up in overall quality of targets while benefiting from some of the attention Wilson receives from opposing defenses. Remember the note about Wilson’s high target percentage against double teams in coverage? Adams had 77 such targets (7th most) in the same window, giving him There’s not that big of a difference.
TL;DR — Each of these elite wide receivers should be viewed as weekly WR2 options with top-5 upside. Both will eat into each other’s overall volume, but each should benefit tremendously in terms of open target rates.
Allen Lazard is probably a nuisance for fantasy teams.
Through the first six weeks of the season, Allen Lazard has become a thorn in the side of fantasy managers because of his strong rapport with Rodgers. Lazard had the same number of end zone targets (four) as Wilson over that span, two more touchdowns (albeit one on a Hail Mary), and just 45 fewer receiving yards. It was.
It’s clear that Adams and Wilson are the best wide receivers in this offense, but Lazard will probably still have a role in chipping away at some of the overall turnaround that either one poses individually. Lazard is clearly an integral part of Rodgers’ inner circle of trust, which is of great value. While he’s arguably the biggest hit with Adams’ addition, he’s still likely to take on at least a red zone job, thereby leaving him in the mix as a weekly flex consideration in plus matchups. You can leave it there.
Brock Bowers = Raiders’ biggest winner
Rookie tight end Brock Bowers has already dominated most of the conversation about the Raiders’ offense this year. With Adams now permanently removed from the Target lineup, there is little doubt that, barring injury, Bowers will likely lead this team in targets, receiving yards, and possibly touchdowns. No (how many of those will score this year is undetermined).
Bowers currently leads all tight ends with 37 receptions and 384 receiving yards (the next highest totals are Trey McBride and George Kittle with 28 receptions and Dallas with 301 receiving yards).・Goedert). Given that most other “elite” tight end options deal with additional competition for targets (Sam LaPorta and Amon-Ra St. Brown, McBride and Marvin Harrison Jr., Mark Andrews and (Isaiah Likely), nothing seems safer than this. It’s more of an option than Bowers in its current position.
Stay tuned for more fantasy implications from Davante Adams’ blockbuster trade
