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Is it time to stop drafting Davante Adams?

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1 min
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Aug 27, 2026
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Thu, August 27, 2026
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Cooper KuppDavante AdamsPuka Nacua
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Cooper Kupp

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Matt Harmon uses Cooper Kupp as a reference point for slot usage, contrasting Kupp's role with Davante Adams' usage as a traditional X receiver.

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Davante Adams

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Matt Harmon notes that while Davante Adams remains an elite technician with high success rates on digs (84%) and slants (81%), he is showing signs of decline. Harmon clarifies that Adams is strictly an X receiver, noting that in 2025, Adams played 87.1% of his snaps outside and was on the line of scrimmage for 82.1% of his snaps, rather than being used in a slot-heavy role.

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Puka Nacua

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Matt Harmon explains that Puka Nacua is the player in the offense tasked with the 'fun move around stuff,' distinguishing his versatile role from Davante Adams' static X receiver position.

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0:00Davante Adams, let's let's give a few
0:01more details here. There were some
0:03really, really nice parts of his
0:05profile. 84% success rate on the dig,
0:0881% success rate on the slant, but there
0:10are other areas, too, where we're
0:13starting to see some decline here.
0:14>> Davante Adams is one of the two or three
0:18best receivers of the reception
0:20perception era, 2014 to current. I
0:22remember time I was with people where
0:23they're like, well,
0:24are we going to see Davante Adams kind
0:25of used in the slot for the Rams like
0:27Cooper Kupp has been used in the slot
0:28and all that stuff. It's like, no.
0:30Actually, Davante Adams is going to come
0:31in there to just play X receiver.
0:34And they're they're going to allow Puka
0:35Nacua to do all the fun move around
0:37stuff. And that is exactly what
0:39happened. Davante Adams in 2025 took
0:4287.1%
0:44of his charted snaps outside. He was on
0:46the line of scrimmage for 82.1%.
0:50Well, he's definitely a declining
0:52player, but there are still some things
0:54he does extremely well because he is a
0:57capital E elite technician. Let's just
1:00lead into those things over and over
1:01again.

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