There have been a lot of wide receiver stories over the last couple of weeks, and from the Raiders standpoint, Davante Adams seems to always be at the center of NFL trade rumors.
Not far up the road, the 49ers only recently ended their contract standoff with Brandon Aiyuk, and the sides came close to agreeing to a trade in August that would have ended Aiyuk’s tenure in San Francisco. The 49ers looked at a variety of trade options for Aiyuk and one of the teams they called looking for a deal was reportedly the Raiders.
According to Mike Silver of the San Francisco Chronicle, the 49ers reached out to the Raiders about a trade, but the player they wanted wasn’t Adams.
It was Jakobi Meyers that they were after.
“[But] the Raiders rebuffed San Francisco’s overtures for [Meyers],” Silver reported on Thursday.
Meyers didn’t have a standout game against the Chargers in week one, but he did lead the team in receiving yards with 61.
Last month, Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter called Meyers the best offensive player at Raiders training camp and compared his camp efforts to what he watched from Calvin Johnson in Detroit.
As far as Adams is concerned, trade rumors have slowed down in recent days, but they are sure to start again as the trade deadline approaches.
In light of Silver’s report, maybe the Raiders will be taking calls on Meyers as the trade deadline approaches, too.
Looking back, the Raiders’ three-year, $33 million deal with Meyers was one of the best contracts the team agreed to in the Josh McDaniels era.
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Do not trade Jacobi Meyers under just about any circumstance! Raiders need him , and need to further develop him into a WR1 when the likely time comes to part ways with Davante Adams either during or after season.
If they trade D. Adams it would probably be to the NYJs! It seems they only keep ex-Patriots’ players. J. Meyers is a good player, he’s not great. So what the Raiders will probably do is keep Meyers and trade Adams. The problem with the new Raiders are they aren’t really committed to winning just waiting for something- for what?
They have maybe the best young TE unit in the NFL. They may have a good back up RB and they have speed but didn’t use any of it to win. The 49ers have DBs’ and the Raiders could use a starting CB but didn’t make the trade. Are the Raiders just keeping the team running instead of working hard to win for some reason? They need to work on winning and not about what is going on with the team’s front office.