Green Bay Packers: Davante Adams Nearly Unstoppable the Last Month

When the Green Bay Packers have needed him most, Davante Adams has been nearly unstoppable over their last four games.

After reaching the 1,000 yard mark for the first time in his career during the 2018 season, Green Bay Packers’ star wide receiver Davante Adams was off to another fantastic start in 2019. Through the team’s first four games, Adams caught nearly 70 percent of his passes for 378 yards at over 15 yards per catch. This included a 106 yard performance against Minnesota and a whopping 180 verse Philadelphia.

Unfortunately, as I’m sure most of you remember, Adams would leave the Philadelphia game with what ended up being a turf-toe injury.

Without Adams the Green Bay Packers still managed to go 4-0 in his absence but as expected, the wide receiver production dropped significantly – excluding the Oakland game – and during that four game span, running back Aaron Jones was Aaron Rodgers’ favorite receiving target.

Upon his return, the production that we saw from Adams was not what we had grown accustomed to seeing, although he did have a fine performance against Carolina where he totaled 118 receiving yards on seven receptions. But in his other four games against Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, Adams caught 61 percent of his passes at just 7.9 yards per catch. However, he did have three touchdown receptions.

While I’m sure there were a few factors that played into those numbers, it’s a very real possibility that one big factor was that turf-toe injury. Turf-toe is an injury that can linger and really affects the wide receiver position where there is a lot of pushing-off and acceleration. Not to mention that many players who suffer from turf-toe may not be completely back to their normal selves until the offseason when they can really let it heal.

Yet with all of that said, based on Adams’ last four games, I’d say that he’s pretty close to his normal self.

To put it simply, since Week 15 against Chicago, Adams has been nearly unstoppable. During those four games, he’s caught 35 of his 53 targets (66 percent) for 472 yards at 13.5 yards per catch with four touchdowns. In three of the four games he has eclipsed the 100 yard mark, including 160 against Seattle in the Divisional Round.

For some context with some of the best receivers in the game, in Michael Thomas’ last four games, he has caught 35 of 46 passes for 371 yards with two touchdowns. Stefon Diggs had 11 receptions on 19 targets for 209 yards with a pair of touchdowns during that same stretch. And lastly, DeAndre Hopkins caught 26 of 39 passes for 350 with no touchdowns.

Adams is peaking and for the Green Bay Packers it couldn’t have come at a better time as he’s done it against three divisional opponents in games that eliminated Chicago from playoff contention, locked up the NFC North in Minnesota, and secured a first-round bye against Detroit. And of course, he saved his best for the Divisional Round of the playoffs.

Now with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line against what is perhaps the best pass-defense in the NFL this season, both Adams and Rodgers will have to bring their “A” games on Sunday. But given what we’ve seen from Adams over the last month, I have no doubts that he will and considering that he appears to be fully healthy this time around, the Niners’ secondary will need their “A” game as well.