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Packers give franchise tag to All-Pro receiver Davante Adams
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The Inexperienced Bay Packers are placing a franchise tag on Davante Adams to stop the two-time All-Professional receiver from changing into an unrestricted free agent.
The Packers made the transfer Tuesday after MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers introduced he’s planning to return to Inexperienced Bay for an 18th season.
If the Packers hadn’t tagged him or signed him to an extension, any crew would have had the chance to signal Adams when the free company interval opens March 16.
Adams and the Packers now have till July 15 to work out a long-term extension. In the event that they don’t come to phrases, Adams would play this season for simply over $20 million as a result of a participant’s franchise tag tender is both the common of the 5 largest salaries from the prior yr on the place – $18.4 million for receivers – or 120% of his earlier season’s wage. The participant receives the upper quantity; in Adams’ case, he will get the 120%.
Adams might negotiate with different groups beneath the non-exclusive tag, however the Packers might match any supply, and in the event that they did not they’d obtain two first-round draft picks.
Packers common supervisor Brian Gutekunst had stated final month he would like to not use the tag on Adams.
FILE – Inexperienced Bay Packers large receiver Davante Adams runs on the sector within the first half of an NFL soccer recreation in opposition to the Baltimore Ravens, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, in Baltimore. The Packers have a number of strikes to make this month to not solely get beneath the wage cap but additionally have sufficient room for a brand new contract to maintain Adams, the All-Professional large receiver who can grow to be a free agent
(AP Photograph/Nick Wass, File)
“It’s clearly a instrument that’s made accessible to us,” Gutekunst stated on the time. “If we have to use it, we actually will. I feel we’d love to return to an settlement earlier than that, however it’s a instrument to have the ability to shield one in all your star gamers. However on the identical time, that’s not the best way – we form of prefer to exhaust all choices earlier than we get to that time.”
Adams additionally didn’t appear glad in regards to the thought of getting tagged when requested late within the season.
“I’m undecided how you can reply that safely proper now,” Adams stated then. “So, we’ll simply cross that bridge after we get to it. I’ll simply say that. I prefer to be skilled on right here.”
Adams, 29, has earned All-Professional honors every of the final two seasons and was a unanimous choice in 2021. He set Packers single-season data for catches (13) and yards receiving (1,553) whereas additionally scoring 11 touchdowns.
He’s the one participant in NFL historical past to have not less than 110 catches, 1,350 yards receiving and 11 landing receptions in three separate seasons. Adams has joined Marvin Harrison and Larry Fitzgerald as the one gamers to have 600 catches, 8,000 yards receiving and 70 landing receptions over their first eight seasons.
The Packers nonetheless have loads of different points to handle of their receiving corps. Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Equanimeous St. Brown and tight finish Robert Tonyan are unrestricted free brokers. Allen Lazard is a restricted free agent.