{"id":194971,"date":"2025-07-10T01:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/194971\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T01:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:52:12","slug":"lebron-james-wouldve-been-all-time-nfl-player-davante-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/194971\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James would&#8217;ve been all-time NFL player: Davante Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star NFL wide receiver Davante Adams believes LeBron James would have dominated the gridiron if he played football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adams was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DrQp2XAnV6I\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appearing on \u201cThe Dan Patrick Show\u201d<\/a> on Wednesday when he was asked what kind of player he thought the NBA superstar would have been if he had played football, and Adams was quick to heap high praise on James.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36491161\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jets-wide-receiver-davante-adams-94884140.jpg\" alt=\"Jets wide receiver Davante Adams (17) at practice.\" class=\"wp-image-36491161\"  \/>Wide receiver Davante Adams practices with the Jets. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would have been one of the best receivers, tight ends of all time. No question,\u201d Adams said. \u201cHe can fly too. That\u2019s the thing. He\u2019s one of the fastest NBA players, probably of all time. I\u2019ve never seen someone cover space on a basketball court. Maybe John Wall, Derrick Rose, something like that, but he\u2019s up there with all of them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James did play football at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Ohio and he certainly had the build for football.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He would&#8217;ve been one of the best receivers\/tight ends of all time, no question.&#8221; \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Davante Adams with high praise for LeBron James <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uJlmRwmSiN\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uJlmRwmSiN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dpshow\/status\/1943013854780236024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t play his senior year as he turned his full attention to basketball, but there\u2019s certainly an argument to be made that he could have excelled on the gridiron beyond high school, and Adams is a believer.<\/p>\n<p>James likened himself on the football field to Randy Moss or Rob Gronkowski during an interview on the \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast in March.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL wide receiver did joke that \u201cBron doesn\u2019t help his case\u2019 in terms of the feeling from some football players that basketball players who think they can play in the NFL would learn the reality real fast once they got hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think it\u2019s a little bit of strategy in there. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s actually banged up every time,\u201d Adams said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36491169\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/los-angeles-lakers-forward-lebron-103625053.jpg\" alt=\"LeBron James in Lakers uniform during a game.\" class=\"wp-image-36491169\"  \/>Lakers forward LeBron James reacts during Game 5 of the first round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs at Crypto.com Arena. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>Adams has played in 164 games and has 957 career catches for 11,844 yards and 103 touchdowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adams played for the Raiders and Jets last season and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/09\/sports\/davante-adams-signing-46-million-contract-with-rams-after-jets-exit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a two-year, $46million deal with the Rams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star NFL wide receiver Davante Adams believes LeBron James would have dominated the gridiron if he played football.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5430,7,10317,155,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-194971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-davante-adams","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-lebron-james","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114826441248251859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}