Few wide receivers score double-digit touchdowns in a single

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Even fewer do so in three consecutive years. Green Bay Packers wideout Davante Adams joined that elite class on Sunday after catching his 10th touchdown of 2018 , a 15-yard reception from Aaron Rodgers in the first quarter against the Minnesota Vikings.Adams has become a touchdown maven in recent years. He recorded 12 receiving touchdowns during his breakout 2016 campaign, falling just behind teammate Jordy Nelson’s 14 scores for most in the NFL. Adams finished second in the league again in 2017, hauling in 10 despite playing roughly half the year without quarterback Aaron Rodgers.Rodgers threw to an open Adams, though the receiver had his back turned, and he did the rest along the left sideline to find the end zone. After hauling in his 10th touchdown, Adams joins Sterling Sharpe and Don Hutson as the only players in Packers history to produce double-digit receiving touchdowns in three straight seasons. Nelson also recorded three such seasons , though he did so non-consecutively (2011, 2014, 2016).Adams might have more milestones to hit Sunday night. The wideout has never previously reached 1,000 receiving yards in a season and entered the game just 47 yards short of the mark. Adams would become Green Bay’s first 1,000-yard receiver since Nelson pulled it off in 2016. The touchdown was his first reception of the game, good for 15 yards , so he has just 32 yards to go.The Packers drafted Adams in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft. After some struggles early in his career, Adams developed into one of the league’s best receivers, earning a long-term extension with the team this past offseason. The current collective bargaining agreement expires after the 2020 season. The NFL and NFLPA already are engaged in discussions to get a new deal. The Packers held a club union meeting Monday and came away encouraged by what they heard.“It feels a little different because we had the uncapped year [in 2010 before the lockout in 2011],” Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the team’s player representative, said , via Jim Owczarski of packersnews.com. “You learned a lot about how the salary cap worked back then. I think everybody kind of felt that offseason there was going to be a lockout. That’s the way the league wanted to go. I don’t know about this one. We’ll see. I think there’s a lot of things to be discussed. There’s some stuff that we need to make right for the next CBA.”Four months ago, the NFLPA first warned players about the possibility of a work stoppage in 2021, encouraging them to save their money. It was a message repeated by Packers players who went through the three-month lockout in 2011.“I always try to let them know, especially now since we are very close to that — if I had to make a safe assumption, I would say it’s gonna happen. Save your money,” Packers right tackle Bryan Bulaga said. “I don’t know another , better way to say it. They can say, ‘Oh, well, you can say it; you can miss a year.’ Listen. Get two years of good money. Just save it. That’s the best I can tell them. Some guys listen. Some don’t. I hope the PA continues to come into our building, having meetings with us and push that narrative. They need to understand there’s already a good chance we are going to be locked out. There’s also a chance we miss part of the season. Guys have to be fully aware of that.”