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Raiders WR Davante Adams Reportedly is Open to Playing for the 49ers

Is Adams the best fit for the 49ers?

Grant Cohn

Sep 15, 2024; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams (17) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the second half against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images
Sep 15, 2024; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams (17) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the second half against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images / Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images
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This should come as no surprise.

Davante Adams wants off the Raiders and has listed the 49ers among the teams that we would be willing to play for, according to The NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. The other teams on Adams' wishlist reportedly are the Saints, the Steelers, the Bills, the Cowboys and the Ravens.

The 49ers appeal to Adams most likely because they're good and they're near his hometown of East Palo Alto. Which means joining the 49ers would be a homecoming of sorts for Adams, who's almost 32 and running out of time to win a Super Bowl.

But is Adams the best fit for the 49ers?

Adams is a high-volume wide receiver who demands the ball and is accustomed to getting 10 targets every game. The 49ers currently don't have many targets to go around. They're struggling to keep all of their weapons involved in the passing game as is. Unless the 49ers were to trade a wide receiver back to the Raiders in exchange for Adams, he would be superfluous in San Francisco despite how good he is.

In addition, Adams doesn't lock to block, and head coach Kyle Shanahan requires his wide receivers to block or he won't play them. So it's unclear if Adams would fully buy into Shanahan's culture.

I'm guessing the 49ers won't trade for Adams unless the Raiders want Brandon Aiyuk or Deebo Samuel in return. And it has been reported that the Raiders want a second-round pick in exchange for Adams, and I highly doubt the 49ers agree to that.

We'll see what happens.

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GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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