NEW YORK — Hours after the trade between the Jets and the Raiders was finalized wide receiver Davante Adams took a red eye to New Jersey on Tuesday morning.

Now, the three-time first-team All-Pro will debut this Sunday.

Adams, who has missed the last three weeks due to a hamstring injury, says he will play against the Steelers on Sunday Night Football. Adams was a full participant in Wednesday’s practice.

The Jets acquired Adams in a trade with the Raiders for a 2025 conditional third-round pick that can become a second-round pick if Adams is a first- or second-team All-Pro or on the active roster for the AFC championship or Super Bowl.

The trade reunites Adams with Aaron Rodgers, his teammate in Green Bay for eight seasons. Adams called Rodgers following the Jets loss to the Bills on Monday night and they first recapped the game. Then Adams told Rodgers the news that he was being traded to the Jets.

In three games this season, Adams has registered 18 catches for 209 yards and a touchdown.

“It has been a roller coaster for sure,” Adams said Wednesday. “It’s a weird thing to say that I’m happy, but obviously, it was time for a change. This whole thing kind of transpired a little weird, but at the end of the day, we are in a better place, and I think the Raiders are in a better place as well, and everybody can kind of move on.

“Definitely been a roller coaster as it was a little bit of up and down and left and right here and there. But we ultimately got it done.”

After Adams landed in New Jersey Tuesday morning, he took a physical, and the trade between the Jets and Raiders was shortly finalized. For the short term, Adams is staying at Rodgers’ house, and the two have already begun discussing the different plays and signals in the Jets’ offense.

Adams will try to recreate the magic he had with Rodgers when the two were with the Packers from 2014-21. During that time, Adams caught 669 passes for 8,121 yards and 73 touchdowns while being named to two first-team All-Pro teams and five Pro Bowls.

“Very surreal,” Rodgers said about teaming up with Adams again. “I turned to him in the team meeting today and told him, ‘How crazy is this?’

“When we get together in the offseasons, we joke about it, but it never seemed like a possibility. But it’s good to be with him. He has a presence about him when he walks onto the field or in a meeting.

“He has a high football IQ and he is going to help G [Garrett Wilson]. G has faced a lot of double teams over the first six weeks and now you have to kind of pick your poison.”

In 2022, the Packers traded Adams, 31, to the Raiders for first- and second-round draft picks. He wanted to come to Las Vegas to reunite with Derek Carr, who played in college at Fresno State. However, the two only played together for one year after the Raiders released Carr following the 2022 season.

Adams’ next two seasons with the Raiders were very turbulent. In 2023, three different starting quarterbacks played for Las Vegas, and the team fired its coach, Josh McDaniels, midway through the year.

Antonio Pierce then became the interim coach and later the full-time coach of the Raiders, and Adams threw his support behind him. However, following an embarrassing Week 3 loss to the Panthers, Pierce criticized Raiders players without naming names, saying they made “business decisions.”

Then, on Oct. 1, Pierce appeared to like a social media post suggesting that Adams had played his last snap as a Raider following a midweek hamstring injury while preparing to play the Browns in Week 4. The following day, Adams informed the Raiders that he wanted to be traded.

Adams then told the Raiders that the Jets were at the top of the list of teams he wanted to play for.

“All the fans and everybody who’s associated with the Raiders, they see trade demand and they think he just wants out and he is quitting on the team,” Adams said. “I want to feel like I can impact the game every time I touch the field.

“So just having the confidence that I’ll be able to make some plays and change the game versus getting out on the field and feeling like we need too many things to go right in order to be successful. When I say me, I don’t mean me going out having an All-Pro year every time, that comes with consistency.

“Sometimes, you gotta make it easier and get to a situation where it allows you to be yourself.”

Adams will join a Jets team that has been inconsistent on offense during the season’s first six weeks, which has led to their disappointing 2-4 record. Gang Green ranks 22nd in yards (304.3) and is tied for 23rd in points per game (18.8).

That’s one of the reasons Robert Saleh was fired last week and Jeff Ulbrich was made the Jets’ interim coach. Ulbrich then demoted offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett from his play-calling duties and made passing game coordinator Todd Downing the new play-caller.

A lot has been attributed to the Jets’ offensive struggles. Among those is the lack of chemistry between Rodgers and the Jets receivers outside of Allen Lazard, who played five years with him in Green Bay.

Red zone offense has also been an issue with the Jets. In the loss against Buffalo, Gang Green converted on just 1 of 4 red zone opportunities. The Jets rank 18th in red zone scoring percentage (52.9%).

In addition to his former teammate Lazard, Adams will be working alongside Garrett Wilson, who registered back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons despite the Jets starting six different quarterbacks the previous two seasons.

Ulbrich told reporters on Tuesday that he hopes Adams can positively influence Wilson, just like when he was a linebacker with the 49ers in 2000 when an older Jerry Rice mentored a young Terrell Owens.

“To be able to come over here with Laz [Lazard] and I played with him for many years and I got a chance to help him develop and to see where he’s at, it is fun to watch,” Adams said. “Obviously getting in with Garrett, we talked about this a little over a year ago about just how we wish we could have played together because I’m a fan of his game and the feeling is mutual on his side too.

“Here we are now and we got to maximize this and take advantage of it.”

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