The clock continues to tick on a potential Davante Adams trade. And the Raiders continue to owe the receiver more than $983,000 per week.
TheAthletic.com recently reported that the Jets, Saints and Steelers remain interested. According to the report, the Accounts ‘monitor’ the situation.
Other teams are absent or were never interested, such as the Cowboys, Ravens and Chiefs.
The bills remain the most useful. They don’t have a clear No. 1 receiver. Adams would fill that void immediately.
The Raiders continue to want a second-round draft pick. (Others have reported wanting more; we’ve heard of one two getting it done.) To get there, the Raiders may have to pay a large chunk of the remaining payroll, which stands at $12.198 million in Week 6.
If they pay a portion of the salary, the Raiders would convert most of it into a signing bonus. They wouldn’t have to pay it all at once now; they could pay it in weekly installments over the course of the season.
The reality is that they will pay it all without an exchange. And with a salary that will increase to $35.64 million in 2025, he will be cut after the season and not traded.
So the Raiders have three weeks and six days to trade him. If they wait until the deadline, they’ll pay him another $3.75 million before trading him.
It won’t be cheap to wait. However, with each passing game week, a team that isn’t currently interested may become interested. Or a team currently interested could become desperate.
All it takes is one injury (to one of the four interested teams or another team) and everything changes.
