It won’t be another 17 weeks until the Green Bay Packers and Davante Adams hit the field to open the 2017 season.
That’s119 days, 3 months, 27 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 15 seconds from the moment I write this.
If you break it down even more, it’s 2,856 hours; 17,1360 minutes; and 10,281,600 seconds.
While we’re counting down the days, we don’t expect you to count all those individual seconds – unless you don’t have anything else to do.
But in the meantime, we’re going to take a look at the Packers’ most current #17 – Davante Adams on this day that is 17 weeks from the start of the season.
Davante Adams – ready to break out
There been only a select few over the course of the past 50 years or so who have worn #17 for the Green Bay Packers.
Davante Adams – who I feel is poised for a huge breakout season – is one of them.
The others?
Well, here is a list of those not-so-memorable players, courtesy of profootballreference.com:
Didn’t really know that Don King played for the Packers … I guess it’s not THAT Don King … but looking at the list, I do remember how well Craig Hentrich kicked for the Packers before Ron Wolf allowed him to walk out of Green Bay. But I also remember how badly Don Bracken punted for Green Bay and how middling David Whitehurst was.
Jerry Tagge? No, we won’t go there.
But for the first three seasons played by Davante Adams, there have been plenty of ups and downs.
For a player who caught less than 60 percent of the balls thrown his way his first two season, Adams has been a player who has captured the confidence of his coaches and his quarterback.
There have been drops in the end zone, in the middle of the field and many plays that looked as though Aaron Rodgers and Adams were on completely different pages.
But despite all that, Adams showed significant improvement in year three over his first two seasons.
In his rookie season, Adams caught just 38 of the 66 balls thrown his way for 446 yards, and 3 touchdowns.
In 2015, Adams caught 50 of the 94 balls thrown his way for 483 yards and one touchdown.
But it was last season, 2016, when Adams stepped up his game and doubled his production.
Last season, Adams caught 75 of the 121 passes thrown to him (62.3 percent) for 997 yards (13.3-yard average) and 12 touchdowns.
In his short career, Adams has 1,926 yards from scrimmage and figures to play even more into the Packers’ plans in his fourth – and contract – season.
That said, expect Adams to break out this year with statistics that at least match what he produced last season.
It’s also important to note that Adams is fast becoming a target who may be looked to for even bigger and better things in the years to come.
Don’t expect him to be taking over for Jordy Nelson, but if complemented with another up-and-coming wide receiver, Adams could play a huge role in the future successes of the Green Bay Packers.
So on this day that marks 17 weeks until the Packers open the 2017 season at home against Eddie Lacy and the Seattle Seahawks, we take a look at Adams, one of the players who will have a big impact on the franchise in the seasons to come.
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Davante Adams’ career statistics, courtesy of profootballreference.com: