Now is the time for Davante Adams and Jets

Davante Adams wants to leave Las Vegas for a long-awaited reunion with Aaron Rodgers.

Aaron Rodgers has long longed for a reunion with Davante Adams.

This is Now or Never season for the Jets.

Memo to Joe Douglas: Go get him.

Who can be sure how long Rodgers will decide to play if he takes more of the hits he took against the Broncos?

Haason Reddick has submitted a trade request to the Jets. Trade him to the Raiders if necessary.

Dissatisfied star for dissatisfied star for starters. The trade deadline is November 5.

Or a second-round pick as part of the compensation — as the Raiders have reportedly asked for in any deal — for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win a Super Bowl for a franchise that has won one Super Bowl in its lifetime? Go for it.

Adams has a base salary of $35.6 million in 2025 and 2026. None of this is guaranteed.

He is making $16.9 million in base salary this season.

Douglas and Robert Saleh can’t worry about 2025 or 2026. They have every reason to worry about 2024.

Reddick will make a non-guaranteed $14.25 million this season, in the final year of his contract.

It would not be without risk: Adams is 32 and is struggling with a hamstring injury that kept him out of the game last week. Through three games, he has 18 catches for 209 yards and a touchdown. And that’s when Gardner Minshew threw him the ball.

But pairing Adams with Garrett Wilson would give the defense a “choose your poison” reality.

Wilson has been suffocated by free-agent acquisition Mike Williams in pitch counting so far this season.

Rodgers has repeatedly compared Wilson to Adams, but his chemistry with Wilson (20-191-1 TD) has yet to materialize.

Douglas previously tried to trade for Adams but was rejected by the Raiders. Adams toeed the party line, but it was more of a grin-and-bear-it mentality that seems to have soured with Minshew as his quarterback.

“If I was going to reunite with anyone, it would be with Aaron, or move somewhere else,” Adams said over the summer, “it would be with Aaron.”

He also said: “I’m locked in with the Raiders and I feel really good about this team, and as far as I know they feel good about me. If that ever changes, if that gets to a point where they don’t feel the same anymore, I’m not done playing yet, so obviously we would figure out what we needed to figure out.

Rodgers at the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe this summer: “I love Davante. I can’t wait to play with him.” Then he added, “again.”

In eight seasons together in Green Bay, before the blockbuster Adams trade to the Raiders in 2022, Adams caught 669 passes for 8,121 yards with 73 TDs. Rodgers won back-to-back league MVPs in 2020-21. From 2020-2023, Adams surpassed 100 catches and 1,000 receiving yards each season.

Near the end of the 2021 season, Rodgers called Adams the best teammate he ever had. “The kind of dominance I’ve seen from Davante warrants that kind of praise,” Rodgers said.

The feeling has always been mutual.

“He had the Michael Jordan effect,” Adams once said. “He’ll make you play better… just by being on the field.”

Take to the future. Because the future is now.