When the Raiders traded away their first and second-round picks for a wide receiver this offseason, it wasn’t for just any Pro Bowl receiver. Instead, they traded for the consensus top receiver in the NFL over the last few years.
In a recent article by Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, he polled over 50 NFL coaches, scouts and executives and had them rank their top 10 receivers in the league. Davante Adams was the top receiver for the second-straight year, earning more than 66 percent of the first-place votes.
Here is what one NFL executive had to say about the new receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders: