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The Las Vegas Raiders can brag about having one of the best wide receivers in the game.
Davante Adams is an absolute stud, and while he’s not the fastest guy out there, he always manages to create separation and be wide open.
He’s an elite and very disciplined route-runner as well, and more importantly, he may have the most reliable pair of hands in the entire National Football League.
Notably, some of that has to do with a big piece of advice he once got from the legendary Jerry Rice.
In his recent sitdown with Shannon Sharpe for his Club Shay Shay podcast, Adams told the story of the time he reached out to the San Francisco 49ers legend to pick his brain about his pass-catching skills.
.@JerryRice to Davante Adams (@tae15adams)
“I never caught a football because I saw it; I caught it because I saw it before.” pic.twitter.com/9v2pdeyBVc
— Club Shay Shay (@ClubShayShay) July 28, 2024
Adams asked him his secret and how he made it look so easy, and Rice’s answer was as simple as it was logical.
He told him that he never caught a ball because he saw it, but because he had seen it before.
Per Rice, it was all about going all-out in practice and taking those reps seriously, so that when he was on the field for an actual game, there were no surprises or new things whatsoever for him.
He claimed that some of the passes even felt like Deja Vu for him because he had already made those catches countless times in practice.
When Jerry Rice speaks, everybody listens, and it’s safe to say that Adams made the most of his wisdom and that golden advice.
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