The Las Vegas Raiders‘ no good, very dangerous season simply received a lot worse.
Quarterback Gardner Minshew left Sunday’s, 29-19, loss to the Denver Broncos with a critical damage, confirmed to be a season-ending damaged collarbone after the sport.
Minshew began the season below heart for Las Vegas earlier than being benched for backup Aidan O’Connell in Week 6.
O’Connell then suffered a fractured thumb early in Week 7, with Minshew being known as again into obligation mid-game. However the sixth-year veteran was benched as soon as once more in Week 10, this time for backup Desmond Ridder, within the midst of a, 41-24, blowout loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Minshew returned below heart in Week 11 because the named starter and stored the job till his unlucky damage in the course of the staff’s Week 12 loss Sunday.
With Las Vegas now down two quarterbacks, head coach Antonio Pierce might method common supervisor Tom Telesco to discover a new passer as an alternative of reverting to Ridder.
Properly, one starting-caliber quarterback will probably be coming into the market on Monday and might be the proper match.
Daniel Jones, waived by the New York Giants over the weekend, has been related to a number of groups (h/t Ian Rapoport) together with Las Vegas.
Jones has made it identified he needs to play for a contender and Rapoport notes San Francisco and Baltimore are among the many different groups .
However Las Vegas would supply the 27-year previous a chance to audition for the full-time beginning position in a franchise that might’ve possible been spending a first-round decide on a rookie passer in April anyhow.
Jones might find yourself being a cheap free agent addition that gives Las Vegas with flexibility so as to add a weapon or ability place enhance with its possible excessive first-round choice.
Pierce can be a former Large and will discover that as a bonding second together with his potential new sign caller. If issues do not work out and Pierce compelled from the recent seat, then Jones will nonetheless have the possibility to discover a new dwelling in conventional free company.
It seems like a win-win for each events however whether or not an precise settlement materializes within the coming days is left to be seen.
