WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. – Playing wide receiver in the NFL is not for the faint of heart. After all, the route tree isn't just exclusively goes and posts, or in- or out-breaking routes at depths of 15 yards.

Sometimes, receivers get asked to run slant routes over the middle. Sometimes, a big hit is waiting from them immediately as they catch the football. The response can either empower an opposing defense, or demoralize them.

That's why it was so important to Davante Adams to get up right away after the hit he took making his first catch – a three-yard slant – as a Ram.

"There's something to that," Adams said Wednesday, when asked whether big hits in Week 1 are a good way to begin the season. "I don't know if I'll get hit harder than that this year, hopefully not (laugh). To set the t

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