Raiders' Updated Depth Chart, Cap Space After Davante Adams Trade and Contract

It's 2019 all over again as the Las Vegas Raiders acquired one of the NFL's best wide receivers, who's immediately getting a massive pay raise.

ESPN's Adam Schefter reported the Raiders traded for Green Bay Packers star Davante Adams and will send two 2022 NFL draft picks, including their 2022 first-rounder to Green Bay.

According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, Adams will also receive a long-term extension to become the highest-paid wideout in the league. 

Here's how the Raiders offense will look with their newest addition:

---

Las Vegas Raiders Depth Chart—Offense

• QB: Derek Carr 
• RB: Josh Jacobs, Kenyan Drake, Brandon Bolden 
• FB: Jakob Johnson, Sutton Smith 
• LWR: Davante Adams, Mack Hollins, DJ Turner 
• RWR: Bryan Edwards, Tyron Johnson, Dillon Stoner 
• SWR: Hunter Renfrow, Javon Wims 
• TE: Darren Waller, Foster Moreau 
• LT: Kolton Miller, Jackson Barton, Kamaal Seymour 
• LG: John Simpson, Alex Bars, Jordan Simmons, Lester Cotton 
• C: Andre James, Brett Heggie, Hroniss Grasu 
• RG: Denzelle Good, Alex Leatherwood, Jordan Meredith 
• RT: Jackson Barton, William Sweet

Depth chart via OurLads.com

---

Per Over the Cap, Las Vegas had $36.6 million in salary cap space, so it won't have any trouble absorbing Adams' cap hit for 2022 if it matches the average payout from his new deal.

Depending on how far back you want to go, it has been quite the sequence of events that led the Raiders here.

Las Vegas tried this strategy before when it acquired Antonio Brown from the Pittsburgh Steelers and handed him a new contract. Within months, things rapidly deteriorated and Brown was released outright.

The next offseason, the Raiders selected Henry Ruggs III with the 12th overall pick. Midway through the 2021 season, Ruggs was involved in an automobile crash that killed one woman in Las Vegas, and he was released by the team shortly thereafter following felony charges of driving under the influence of alcohol resulting in death and reckless driving.

You could even go back to when the franchise traded away Amari Cooper, the No. 4 overall pick in the 2015, to the Dallas Cowboys in 2018.

If any one of Brown, Ruggs or Cooper worked out long-term for the Raiders, then general manager Dave Ziegler might not have felt the need to push all of his chips in with Adams right now.

And that's before getting into how the combined presence of Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert and now Russell Wilson in the AFC might have compelled Ziegler to act.

There's no question as to Las Vegas' goals within the next few years.

The team went out and landed the best wide receiver on the free-agent market after having already agreed to a three-year contract with one of the best pass-rushers available, Chandler Jones.

Derek Carr certainly couldn't have picked a better time to enter a contract year.

Darren Waller has caught 252 passes for 3,006 yards and 14 touchdowns over the last three years, while Hunter Renfrow is coming off his first 1,000-yard season (103 catches, 1,038 yards and nine touchdowns) en route to a Pro Bowl appearance.

Now, Adams will be joining the group.

Under first-year head coach Josh McDaniels, the potential for the Raiders offense is through the roof.