Davante Adams is one of the best players in football. The popularity of Adams has taken an extreme leap in the past couple of years, and especially this year, nationally. With many notable wide receivers struggling, people are looking to Adams as a premier guy. Bill Huber of SI.com asked him yesterday when he met with the media when Adams started to think about the NFL. The Packers wide receiver pulled a picture of himself in third grade wearing what looked like a Jerry Rice Raiders jersey and shared a sweet story. Watch below.

Gotten to cover some really engaging, fascinating guys in 25 years on the #Packers. Davante Adams has become a favorite. He’s smart. He’s interesting. He’s taught me stuff about football I never knew. But this @tae15adams–@BillHuberSI exchange is my new favorite moment of his. pic.twitter.com/tEbdmH7Y4n

— Jason Wilde (@jasonjwilde) December 3, 2020

The term ‘Manifest’ gets overused by influencers and fake people but that’s exactly what Adams did. He manifested a dream to be an NFL player. We all have that dream. It’s rare to see people live it out and believe it from the start. The Packers star deserves all the credit in the world for becoming a great athlete. Shouts to Huber too for unlocking this question. This is a good one, and these Zooms have been hard on both sides of the table, so, it’s nice to see cool stuff come out of it still.

An Adams story that I’ll share here is I used to work for a prominent Packers sponsor. At the time, we were looking for a new Packers player to represent our company as the old ones were thought to leave the team. I suggested Adams as he was starting to emerge. The company worried Adams was “too rough around the edges” for their brand. I always think about that as the Packers receiver continues to shine. What a fucking loss on their behalf.

Charlie.