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Raiders WR Davante Adams sounds off after news his best friend was benched | He is the reason I came here

The All-Pro receiver played with Carr at Fresno State and left the Green Bay Packers via trade last season to join his friend and college teammate in Las Vegas.
The All-Pro receiver played with Carr at Fresno State and left the Green Bay Packers via trade last season to join his friend and college teammate in Las Vegas.

Davante Adams is not upset with the benching of Derek Carr. Adams was willing to be traded to Las Vegas because his college teammate and best friend Derek Carr was the quarterback, and it sounds like he is not taking the news too well.

“Obviously, I don’t think anybody was excited about it in here,” Adams said of Carr’s demotion. “Him being one of my really good friends and the reason why I came here in the first place.

“I wouldn’t be here right now if he wasn’t here. … Obviously I support my guy. We’ve got to finish the season up the best way we can possibly with all things considered at this point.”

Adams said he is going to be a pro’s pro and finish what he came to do, but still seemed pissed his best friend was benched.

The Raiders are likely going to trade Derek Carr in the off-season but if Carr would have played and gotten hurt the Raiders would have been on the hook for 33 million guaranteed next year, so that is part of the reason he was benched for Jarrett Stidham.

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