Davante Adams’s Monday Night Misery Has NFL World Wishing for a Trade

Fans want him on a different team ASAP.

After a miserable performance against the Lions on Monday Night Football, NFL fans have seen enough of the Raiders. Specifically, they’ve had enough of the team wasting a future Hall of Famer. 

Davante Adams simply had enough toward the end of the fourth quarter on Monday and the star wide receiver was seen slamming his helmet into the ground before sitting on the bench and holding his head in his hands in complete defeat after the offense fell short of scoring yet again. His reaction went viral as did his postgame comments.

“I honestly . . . I don’t know what to say at this moment. I truly don’t,” Adams said after the 26–14 loss, per Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer. “I wish I had the words to say something that’s not gonna get blown up in the media or taken out of context.”

Adams finished the game with just one catch for 11 yards and Las Vegas fell to a disappointing 3–5 on the year. The Raiders’ inept offense wasting Adams’s generational talent led football fans to plead for a trade to get the six-time Pro Bowler to a different team where he’d be used better. 

Here are some reactions from the football world ahead of the 4 p.m. ET trade deadline Tuesday: 

Raiders should do Davante Adams a solid and trade him. He deserves it. He came there to play for his favorite team, they got rid of the QB he came there to play with and he has 1 catch tonight. Don’t subject him to anymore of this dysfunction.

— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) October 31, 2023

The league office should just step in and rule that Davante Adams is a free agent, and the Raiders get the 33rd pick in the draft. No financial ramifications for Vegas. No trade necessary. Just do what’s right for the sport.

— Robert Mays (@robertmays) October 31, 2023

This is the only clip Davante Adams needs to bring to the front office tomorrow with his trade request pic.twitter.com/ECecCcPlnx

— Zirksee🍽️ (@Zirksee) October 31, 2023

For the sake of football fans everywhere, not to mention Davante Adams' sanity, someone needs to trade for Davante Adams tomorrow.

And I'm not saying the Chiefs, that's not happening. Buffalo, Dallas, Detroit, Baltimore, hell even Houston, all would be way more fun.

— nick wright (@getnickwright) October 31, 2023

Davante Adams chose to come to the #Raiders, a big reason why is to play with one of his best friends Derek Carr.

Carr is gone.

The team's offense is lost under Josh McDaniels.

They need to do him a favor and free him, they have to trade him.

Jimmy Garoppolo is a bad QB and… https://t.co/Ycb87s1vUk pic.twitter.com/Nz5M1WD4KM

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 31, 2023

Davante should chain himself to the Lions locker room and refuse to leave until he gets a trade. Peaceful protest.

— Benjamin Solak (@BenjaminSolak) October 31, 2023

"This Raiders offense is abysmal. They can't get anything going at all." @golic

"If I'm Davante Adams, waking up today, the trade deadline coming up at 4pm ET, I'm just going to send a wire that I've been traded to [fill in a team] and see what happens." @mikegolicjr pic.twitter.com/gFwsekDFRE

— GoJo and Golic (@GoJoandGolic) October 31, 2023