GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Only one player in the NFL last season saw the ball thrown his way more often than Davante Adams.
Atlanta’s Julio Jones had 170 targets.
Adams had 169.
While Adams has never been part of the get-me-the-damn-ball generation of receivers, that might not be enough for the quarterback charged with getting him the ball.
“I’d like to throw to Davante more,” Aaron Rodgers said this week following a Green Bay Packers OTA practice that, coincidentally, Adams did not attend. “He’s that open. We’ve got to keep finding ways to get him the ball.