Raiders, McDaniels support Adams after incident

LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas Raiders manager Josh McDaniels voiced his enactment for wide receiver Davante Adams connected Tuesday afternoon, hours aft a constabulary study was taken connected Adams pushing down a antheral astatine the decision of the Raiders' 30-29 nonaccomplishment astatine the Kansas City Chiefs connected his mode to the locker country Monday night.

And though ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that Adams is facing subject from the NFL, McDaniels said helium did not yet cognize "what whitethorn oregon whitethorn not come" from the league.

"I enactment Davante wholeheartedly arsenic a quality being," McDaniels said. "As a person, he's a large guy. I cognize that was an unfortunate situation. We evidently don't privation immoderate of our guys to beryllium doing thing similar that. He knows that. He's precise good alert of that. But I cognize the person; I don't deliberation determination was immoderate intent down it, connected his part.

"But immoderate [the NFL] asks of us, immoderate they request from us, evidently we'll comply. But we're benignant of successful a wait-and-see [situation] astatine this point."

The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department released a connection Tuesday greeting that elaborated connected the situation. The antheral was a freelancer moving for ESPN's Monday Night Football.

"The unfortunate is simply a lensman astatine the Chiefs/Raiders game. At the extremity of the game, helium was pushed to the crushed causing injury. He made arrangements for backstage transport to the infirmary for attraction astatine which clip helium called police. The injuries are preliminarily thought to beryllium non-life threatening. The incidental volition beryllium investigated by our Assault Unit detectives, upon completion they volition coordinate with the applicable metropolis oregon authorities authoritative to find immoderate applicable charges."

The study said the probe was expected to instrumentality "longer than 1-2 days."

At his locker aft the game, Adams apologized for pushing the antheral down.

"I privation to apologize to the guy, determination was immoderate feline moving disconnected the field, and helium ran, similar jumped successful beforehand of maine coming disconnected the field, and I bumped into him, benignant of pushed him, and helium ended up connected the ground," Adams said astatine the time. "So I wanted to accidental atrocious to him for that due to the fact that that was conscionable vexation mixed with him virtually conscionable moving successful beforehand of me. I shouldn't person responded that way, but that's however I initially responded. So, I privation to apologize to him for that."

There is nary timetable for a determination from the NFL, a root told ESPN's Jeff Darlington. With the Raiders (1-4) connected a bye week, the league is alert it doesn't request to beryllium arsenic expeditious arsenic normal.