GREEN BAY — The question did not hang in the air for long. Davante Adams didn’t have a problem with the question, and he certainly didn’t have a problem answering it.
Is it fair to say you’re the best wide receiver in the NFL?
In recent years, the Green Bay Packers seventh-year wideout had been viewed nationally as an elite-but-not-quite-there-yet talent, one who — in many observers’ minds, anyway — came in a notch below Atlanta’s Julio Jones, or New Orleans’ Michael Thomas, or Houston’s (now Arizona’s) DeAndre Hopkins, or Tampa Bay’s Mike Evans. And based solely on his numbers, that assertion was difficult to dispute.