Las Vegas Raiders general manager Tom Telesco moved to end speculation at the NFL scouting combine in February that star wide receiver Davante Adams might be on the trade block.
“He’s a Raider,” Telesco said.
Even so, that talk has continued about Adams’ future in Las Vegas — and it intensified to the point that his representatives tried to shut it down. They called it “baseless, unfounded speculation” in a statement last month to ESPN.
Adams himself has said he’s focused on this season for the Raiders, who went through their first training camp practice Wednesday.
“I don’t live my life in the mindset of things may get bad,” Adams said. “I like to think it’s a fresh slate. I’ve got a whole new mentality. I didn’t come into last year in a bad place. It was the way the cookie crumbled.”
The Netflix documentary series “Receiver” showed how frustrating last season was for Adams. He was one of five players the streaming service followed on and off the field, chronicling his ups and many downs.
Adams exuded visible frustration over the Raiders’ 3-5 start and the play of quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, who had thrown seven touchdown passes and nine interceptions to that point.
Raiders owner Mark Davis then fired coach Josh McDaniels and elevated Antonio Pierce to interim coach. One of Pierce’s first acts was to bench Garoppolo in favor of rookie Aidan O’Connell, who led the Raiders to a 5-4 record over the second half of the season.
Adams said in “Receiver” that he “signed off on” the quarterback change.
“I love Jimmy, and he’s a great guy,” Adams said in the documentary. “But something had to happen in order for us to have a chance down the stretch and for me to remain a Raider.”
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Adams said Wednesday the series accurately depicted his and the team’s journey.
“You saw raw emotion and that was a genuine look at what we were going through,” Adams said. “It wasn’t always the brightest point, but there were a lot of good moments,…
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