Jets WR Davante Adams’ contract allows him to determine his future for the 2025 season

While this decision wasn’t a big deal at the time, it gave Adams the opportunity to decide his own fate after this season. If Rodgers isn’t brought back (or he decides to retire), Adams will decide his future.

Here’s why: Adams is due for $35.64 million each year in 2025 and 2026. The Jets will never pay him that much money at ages 33 and 34. All sides know that these numbers need to be adjusted. If Adams wants out, he can simply decline any offers to rejoin the contract and wait for them to release him before free agency begins on March 12 (instead of carrying that number into the new league year).

Adams controls his own path. Obviously, the Jets would have preferred to negotiate a completely reworked contract with Adams that would have allowed him to stay through 2025 without any issues or made his contract tradeable if it didn’t work out.

Adams was asked about his future this week and was noncommittal: “I really don’t have an answer to that at the moment.”

“I would love to be a part of this football team,” Adams said Wednesday. “…I would like to go to war with these guys, but it’s a business and there are a lot of problems, contractually and of course with Aaron’s future – a lot of things that I can’t control.”

Sources said Rodgers and the offense in general need to improve for the former MVP to stick around. Adams alluded to this, saying, “Hopefully we do enough to make everyone feel like staying here is the right thing to do.”