GREEN BAY — Jordy Nelson has been a lot of things to Davante Adams over the years.
Teammate. Mentor. Friend. Hater.
Yep. At least if you ask Adams.
Adams enters the Green Bay Packers’ regular-season finale against the Detroit Lions having caught 117 passes for 1,498 yards and 11 touchdowns — meaning he needs 22 yards to break Nelson’s franchise single-season receiving yardage record of 1,519 set in 2014, when Adams was a rookie.
And Adams does so believing that, upon his arrival as a second-round pick from Fresno State, Nelson, the team’s No. 1 receiver and quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ established go-to guy, hated him.