10 Things New York Jets’ Davante Adams Can’t Live Without
New York Jets wide receiver Davante Adams joins GQ Sports to reveal his 10 Essentials. The NFL star breaks down his daily essentials: from his durag (“10 years, right here, same one”) to his Patek Philippe (“I wore it when I met Bruno Mars… I somehow scratched the face”). Watch the full episode of GQ Sports’ 10 Essentials, as Davante Adams reveals 10 things he can’t live without.
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00:00I thought those are gonna stay together a little bit better. No we're doing four
00:05so me I'm a receiver right? There we go. What's up GQ I'm Devontae Adams and
00:13these are my essentials. These are one of my prized possessions here. These ones in
00:22particular are one of my favorites that I've ever designed and I've designed
00:26quite a few shoes aka cleats that get turned into turf. So first we'll look at
00:31the back. This is the most important piece right here. You'll see that on
00:34there. Top two not two. That's just to let everybody know in case they do forget. You
00:39got some snake skin, some croc skin, a little bit of everything on here. Got a
00:43little shiny silver on here. You know it's supposed to be Raiders colors
00:46mixing it in with a little red for Fresno in there as well. I try to get
00:50sneaky with a few things just to you know add a little bit of my flair and
00:53some of my past into them as well but you know as a lifelong Jordan fan,
00:57Michael Jordan fan and the brand of Jordan, you're never guaranteed to be on
01:01that brand. You know so to be a part of elite company it means a lot to me but
01:06to be stamped by Michael himself means a lot as well. So I try to do the best that
01:10I can on the field to be a good reflection of the brand. I think I'm the
01:14most competitive active athlete. I think Michael Jordan is the most competitive
01:18human being who's ever lived. Whether he's golfing, he's out there, they're
01:21paying up bets you know after every hole. To hear that he's still playing 36
01:25holes of golf a day, that's a different level of competitive edge and I admire
01:29that about him and try to put a little bit of that in into my secret sauce as
01:33well. This right here is old trustee for the last 10 years. This exact guy right
01:41here every single day because I would not go to sleep without a do-rag on my
01:46head. Show everybody how we do this. We throw it on like that. I don't have a
01:49mirror so it may be a little messed up. Throw it like that behind the ears and
01:53then we do one more. Boom. This is how I usually rock this every single night and
01:58I probably look stupid with it right now so I'm gonna take it back off but this is
02:01what keeps the hair clean, keeps it laid down. 10 years right here same one.
02:05Somebody tried to steal this on a bachelor's trip. They tried to claim it
02:08was theirs and frankly they almost lost their lives trying to take my my do-rag.
02:12It got to a point where I thought things may get physical because you ain't going
02:15nowhere with this. I love my vehicle. I have a Rolls-Royce Cullinan, a Lamborghini
02:24Urus, Bentley Continental, Spur, the four-door and I have a Ferrari F8 Spyder.
02:30Here she is. They took the 458 which was the predecessor, amped it up with
02:36everything, fixed the inside, all the little bugs and turned it into weapon X.
02:41So now it's one of the best Ferraris on the street. The way I choose a car in
02:45general is it has to be beautiful. If it's a sports car, it's got to be loud.
02:48It's got to sound amazing. It's got to sound amazing even idle, not just driving
02:52because I don't drive super fast all the time and it's got to have a good sound
02:55system no matter what race car or not. It's got to have a good sound system
02:59otherwise I will not be buying that car. My very first car, it was not a Ferrari.
03:04It was even better. It was a 94 stick shift Honda Accord with looks like
03:09bullet holes but they are not. That is just paint peeling aka character but I
03:13love this car. Love that the window on my side didn't work. You had to punch the
03:18side of it to make the window be able to drop down and when my mom would drive me
03:22around this car when I was a kid, I would get bored in there so I would grab a pin
03:25out of the glove box or whatever and for some reason I just started poking holes
03:29in the top of the car so there's still holes in the top of this vehicle and I
03:33think that's why she made me drive it throughout college and when I first got
03:36in the league and then from there we went and hopped in a Porsche to make sure we
03:40didn't have to deal with that anymore.
03:44Really all of my timepieces are essential but this one right here means
03:48a lot to me. It was like my first premium premium premium watch that I got. Patek
03:53Philippe Aquanaut Award when I met Bruno Mars in Vegas. I think I had a few too
03:58many drinks and somehow scratched the face a little bit right here and I want
04:02to get it fixed but part of me likes that there's a little bit more character
04:05to it on the face. You know in the rapper game they call those moons, the chrono in
04:09there. People that really know watches you know my friend Mark Wahlberg he's
04:13got probably one of the most ridiculous watch collections ever but he observed
04:17that and knew exactly what was going on so it's kind of one of those if you know
04:20you know type watches and I think John Mayer actually said something about this
04:24if you have a watch like this this lets everybody else know that you have a lot
04:28of watches like this.
04:31Right here we got the Tom Ford tobacco vanilla. This is one of the
04:35most essential things for me. You know if I had to jog past somebody for
04:40whatever reason you're probably gonna be smelling Tom. I use this usually on game
04:43days because we obviously play more games during the day than we do at
04:47nighttime so smells amazing. Let's get a little. Smells like me. That's good stuff.
04:58I mean this is up at the top. I own I think four pair of these exact ones right
05:03here because these are my favorite shades all time. These are kind of like
05:06my invisible shades. When I put these on I feel like my social anxiety decreases
05:11like I'm looking at her right now you think I'm looking at the camera and I'm
05:13just scoping her out making sure she's not preying on my family or gonna steal
05:17my cologne. I don't know anything so it's good to be able to wear them just so I
05:20can kind of feel like I've you know I'm kind of invisible for the moment so it's
05:24partially that partially the look but everything that I wear I want you to
05:27know that it's not necessarily expensive but it's premium but I don't necessarily
05:31want you to know exactly what the brand is unless you're a connoisseur yourself.
05:35When you look at these shades from here like they could be Ray-Bans they could
05:39be whatever you know but they just so happen to not be Ray-Bans and be Prada
05:42because I'm the Prada Dundada.
05:46This is an essential for me because you know see me game days usually I either
05:51got the bun up if not you'll see me walk in like this and I've actually noticed
05:56that I get recognized more by fans and people on the outside in my hat with my
06:02hair down like this. I kind of partially wear my hair like this a little bit
06:07because it protects them and you know some of this accidentally kind of turned
06:10into just my look. They'll come to the signing with fake dreads and then a
06:14snapback hat on so when I see stuff like that in a way I kind of do it to you
06:19know show them that I appreciate the fact that they're doing that so just win baby.
06:27So since a kid these right here these been one of the most essential pieces
06:32before I even knew what essentials were. Skittles are my favorite candy hands
06:36down but the sour Skittles these take up a whole special block in my heart. These
06:41are what led to me ultimately getting two root canals in high school so thank
06:46you Skittles for that. I don't always keep it back with me because I try to be
06:49better and my kids I mean they can eat a whole cow and then turn around say
06:53they're starving if they see you with whatever. I got to keep it away to
06:57prevent having to deal with future root canals at a young age for those two.
07:04Boom. This is part of my skincare routine. Very essential piece for me is my gel
07:10wash aka face wash. My wife is an esthetician so she actually put me on to
07:14this and when you see me out there on the on the TV screen and just absolutely
07:18blemishless it's partially due to the Stone Crop gel wash right here. The smell
07:23it honestly reminds me of my wife because the Stone Crop lotion from
07:28Eminence is the one that she uses so if I'm away it kind of helps me think about
07:32my wife a little bit more. That was a little bit of a joke but it's it's true.
07:35Indirectly I think about her I'm not sitting there crying and like oh let me
07:39go put my face wash on so I can think about my wife. It kind of happens just
07:42just by chance I guess you could say. Now we also have the blue chapstick brand
07:48right here. This guy you see these lips I have to mainly attribute it to this guy
07:53right here so I keep this on me especially in Vegas 12 to 15 times a
07:57day. Get some of this action going on. Get them nice and yeah it's my guy. What
08:04does this even smell like? It kind of smells like cocoa butter a little bit
08:07almost and I used to use a lot of cocoa butter as most African-American kids did.
08:11I guess you know in a way it takes me back to my childhood. I don't even know
08:14that till now so that's good to know. The most important thing on the planet to me
08:19more than a do-rag, shoes, hat, glasses, Skittles, even more important than
08:24Skittles, my family. They mean the world to me because they basically give me
08:28purpose. It's to the point where I don't even remember what I used to do in my
08:32life before I had kids. I feel like I was just wasting time every everything that
08:35I did. Once Deja joined us in 2019 I feel like that's where I really started to
08:40figure out life in general and you know my wife has helped me all along with
08:44everything. They played a huge role in the player that I am on the field. You
08:48know the man that I am in this world today so it's a blessing being able to
08:51be surrounded by you know my great family that we've created and you know
08:55having met my wife so early that's that's also a blessing. I don't know
08:57where I'll be without them but I don't have to be without them so we won't have
09:01to figure that out. Thanks for watching guys. Make sure you check out Receiver on
09:04Netflix.