Green Bay Packers: 3 Reasons not to trade for Antonio Brown

3. Poor fit alongside Adams

Two All-Pro wide receivers should fit just fine together catching passes from their All-Pro quarterback right?

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That would make sense until you consider that one of those receivers has shown in the past that he isn’t happy when he doesn’t get the touches he feels he deserves. When Brown was sharing targets with Emmanuel Sanders and more recently with Ju Ju Smith-Schuster, his frustrations became visible on the field to the point it affected the team’s chemistry.

Adams is better than either of those two receivers, and it isn’t particularly close. The team invested in Adams last offseason to be their primary playmaker on offense, and he made good on that investment with the incredible season that he turned in. Adding Brown into that mix would stunt Adams’ growth and likely hurt his growing chemistry with Rodgers.

Adams had 169 targets last season, and Brown had 168. Those aren’t numbers that you can put up on the same team, and it makes more sense to stick with Adams, who has proven to improve with time as we have seen so far in his career. Brown may be great as a No. 1 wideout, but the team already has that role filled.