@CUPackFan posted:I'll admit, I was super critical of Adams and very down on him in his sophomore season. Ended up that he played that year injured and it never went public.
He's up there with GB all-time best WRs. Hard to compare but I put Sharpe #1, Jordy #2 and Adams at #3. What he's doing as the only real receiving threat is impressive. It does help when Rodgers is his QB but still.
I was also very critical for the same reasons you were. He was statistically one of the worst WRs in the NFL that year (I think his 5.1 yards/target were the worst in the NFL). He should never have been on the field, but that was the year that Jordy blew out his ACL in the preseason, Ty Montgomery broke his leg, and they had to play an over-the-hill James Jones because they ran out of WRs. In retrospect, it was lucky they didn't really screw up Adams by having him get a more serious injury playing hurt. Then, both Cobb and Adams went down in the playoffs and they had to play a playoff game with Janis and Abbrederis getting huge snap counts. Of course, if this didn't happen we would have never gotten to experience playoff Janis.
As far as Packer WR rankings in the modern era, I think there is still a large gap between the top 2 and the rest (Lofton and Sharpe). I think Adams best comp is Jennings. We all justifiably make fun of Gerg, but he was a top 10 NFL WR for about 5 years. They both run great patterns and were very fluid coming out of breaks. Jordy was a different type of receiver. He wasn't generally a guy that was going to beat guys on sharp cuts in the middle of the field, but he had great deep speed and may have been the best back-shoulder/falling-out-of-bounds-while-keeping-his-feet-in WR in the NFL in the last 20 years.