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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Davante Adams will be Aaron Rodgers’ house guest for a while, at least until the New York Jets’ newly acquired wide receiver gets situated.

So, they drove together to the team facility Wednesday morning. And then sat next to each other during the team meeting, just like old times.

“I turned to him and just said, ‘Man, how crazy is this?’” Rodgers said with a big grin. “It’s something that when we get together in the offseasons, we joke about, but it never seemed like a possibility or going to happen.

“So it’s good to be with him.”

The two longtime Green Bay Packers teammates will also be back together on the football field in Pittsburgh on Sunday night, when Adams expects to make his Jets debut and catch passes again from his pal.

“Definitely, I’ll be able to roll,” Adams said.

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The star wide receiver, acquired from Las Vegas on Tuesday, was limited during the team’s walkthrough session. Adams missed the Raiders’ past three games with a hamstring injury that coincided with his request to be traded.

After a whirlwind 48 hours and months of speculation, he was back with Rodgers and in his familiar No. 17 jersey — this time in green and white.

“It’s been a roller coaster, for sure,” Adams said. “It’s a weird thing to say that I’m happy, but obviously, it was time for a change. And this whole thing kind of transpired a little weird, but at the end of the day, we’re in a better place.

“I think the Raiders are in a better place, as well. And everyone can kind of move on. But it’s definitely been a roller coaster — a little bit up and down and left and right here and there. But we ultimately got it done.”

The 31-year-old Adams caught 103 passes last season for 1,144 yards and eight touchdowns for the Raiders, his second season in Las Vegas after eight with Rodgers in Green Bay.

STEELERS: While Coach Mike Tomlin declined to get into specifics on how quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Justin Fields split snaps during practice on Wednesday, Wilson’s availability and Tomlin saying that Wilson was “in consideration” to start for the first time this season likely means that barring some last-minute setback, Wilson will make his Steelers debut in prime time against Aaron Rodgers and the Jets.

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Fields has played solidly in helping Pittsburgh to a 4-2 start, while the 35-year-old Wilson’s workload has steadily increased in practice over the past few weeks while recovering from a calf injury.

PACKERS: New Green Bay Packers kicker Brandon McManus said he’s thankful for his latest opportunity and confident the circumstances that kept him out of the NFL earlier this season are behind him.

He joined the team Wednesday as Green Bay signed the 33-year-old veteran to replace struggling rookie kicker Brayden Narveson, who has missed a league-high five field-goal attempts. McManus had been out of a job since the summer, when two women sued him in civil court alleging he sexually assaulted them when they were working as flight attendants on the Jacksonville Jaguars’ trip to London.

McManus and an attorney representing him said the lawsuit had been resolved. McManus did not go into specifics.

GIANTS: Left tackle Andrew Thomas will miss the rest of the season after having surgery on his right foot to repair a Lisfranc injury, Coach Brian Daboll confirmed Wednesday.

Thomas, who signed a five-year, $117.5 million contract in 2023, was hurt late in a 17-7 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday night.

LIONS: Defensive tackle Alim McNeill signed a $97 million, four-year contract extension, according to a person familiar with the situation.

McNeill joins quarterback Jared Goff, wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and offensive tackle Penei Sewell as players to land a contract extension this year in Detroit.

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