Now is the time for Davante Adams and Jets

Davante Adams wants to leave Las Vegas for a long-awaited reunion with Aaron Rodgers.

Aaron Rodgers has long wanted to see Davante Adams again.

This is now-or-never season for the Jets.

Memo to Joe Douglas: Get him.

Who can be sure how long Rodgers will decide to play if he takes more of the beating he took against the Broncos?

Haason Reddick has requested a trade from the Jets. Give him to the Raiders if necessary.

Angry star after angry star for starters. The trading deadline is November 5th.

Or a second-round pick as part of the compensation — as the Raiders have reportedly demanded in any deal — for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win a Super Bowl for a franchise that has won a Super Bowl in its lifetime? Do it.

Adams has base salaries of $35.6 million in 2025 and 2026. None of this is guaranteed.

He will earn a base salary of $16.9 million this season.

Douglas and Robert Saleh can't worry about 2025 or 2026. You have every reason in the world to be worried about 2024.

Reddick is expected to make a non-guaranteed $14.25 million this season, the final year of his contract.

It wouldn't be without risk: Adams is 32 and is suffering from a hamstring injury that kept him out of the game last week. In three games, he had 18 catches for 209 yards and a touchdown. And that's only because Gardner Minshew throws him the ball.

But the pairing of Adams and Garrett Wilson would bring a real pick-your-gift reality to the defense.

Wilson has been outnumbered by free agent signing Mike Williams on a pitch count so far this season.

Rodgers has repeatedly compared Wilson to Adams, but his chemistry with Wilson (20-191-1 TD) has yet to materialize.

Douglas had tried to trade for Adams before but was rebuffed by the Raiders. Adams followed the party line, but it was more of a grin-and-win mentality that seems to have gone awry with Minshew as his quarterback.

“If I was going to be reunited with anyone, it would be Aaron, or transferred anywhere,” Adams said over the summer, “it would be Aaron.”

He also said, “I'm a Raiders fan and I feel really good about that team, and as far as I know they feel good about me too.” Should that ever change, if it gets to a point where it “If they don't feel that way anymore, I'm not done playing yet, so of course we'd figure out whatever we need to figure it out.”

Rodgers at the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe this summer: “I love Davante. I can't wait to play with him.” Then he added, “again.”

In eight seasons together in Green Bay before blockbuster Adams joined the Raiders in 2022, Adams caught 669 passes for 8,121 yards with 73 touchdowns. Rodgers won two consecutive league MVP titles in the 2020-21 season. From 2020 to 2023, Adams recorded more than 100 catches and 1,000 yards in each season.

Towards the end of the 2021 season, Rodgers called Adams the best teammate he ever had. “The type of dominance I saw from Davante deserves this praise,” Rodgers said.

The feeling has always been mutual.

“He had the Michael Jordan effect,” Adams once said. “He’ll make you play better … just by being on the field.”

Pack for the future. Because the future is now.