The Las Vegas Raiders are one of many first main wild playing cards within the 2025 NFL Draft, which begins on April 24 in Inexperienced Bay. In typical Raiders style, there isn’t a actual consensus on what they could do with their No. 6 general decide, however there are a number of intriguing choices for them.
A quarterback, particularly Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, may very well be in play as a long-term decide to sit down behind veteran Geno Smith for a few years.
They’ve main wants throughout their roster.
However the way more doubtless, and maybe way more intriguing, possibility is Boise State working again Ashton Jeanty.
The Raiders have been the favorites to land the highest working again prospect, and on Friday common supervisor John Spytek was requested about the opportunity of taking him on the prime of the draft, per NFL.com’s Grant Gordon.
Earlier than he might even reply, head coach Pete Carroll instructed him to “watch out.”
Spytek then talked concerning the significance of including elite gamers and drew a comparability to Saquon Barkley’s affect on the Philadelphia Eagles.
“I am gonna watch out about speaking about any particular participant. However, extra broadly to the working again query, I imply, we simply noticed Saquon Barkley simply change the Eagles in a single 12 months. Now they’d a fantastic group round him, and it was including an elite participant. I feel if you sit the place we sit, the concept is so as to add elite gamers at any place. I do not attempt to devalue any sure place.”
The Jeanty decide goes to be an advanced one for no matter group finally ends up taking him within the first spherical.
He’s certainly some of the proficient gamers within the draft, the perfect at his place and was a fully dominant participant in faculty. There are loads of issues to love about him, and he can completely change an offense and a group if every thing goes based on plan.
The secret’s it must be the best group and the best offense.
The Barkley comparability truly provides fairly a cautionary story for a group just like the Raiders, and Spytek even unintentionally talked about it in his reply: The Eagles already “had a fantastic group round him.”
Barkley was additionally signed as a free agent. The Eagles didn’t have to make use of a top-10 decide so as to add him into their group.
He was the ultimate piece of their Tremendous Bowl puzzle, not one of many beginning items.
One of many greatest causes the working again place turned so devalued lately wasn’t simply due to how brief their careers are. Additionally it is due to how dependent their manufacturing and affect is on the group and state of affairs round them. They want a fantastic line, a robust passing recreation and a great system for every thing to click on.
Barkley had none of that when he performed for the New York Giants after they chose him with a No. 2 general decide. As an alternative of getting him be the ultimate piece of their offense, he was the piece they tried to construct round. And whereas Barkley had some particular person success, it was not the identical as he skilled in Philadelphia. The group success was nowhere near the identical. It was not as a result of he was totally different. The state of affairs was totally different.
It’s a related story with the latest working again to be picked within the prime 10, Atlanta Falcons working again Bijan Robinson. He’s nice, dynamic and makes loads of performs. However remainder of the Falcons offense is so flawed that it has not but made a huge effect on their offense or their group success.
Jeanty may very well be a steal and fast affect participant for anyone within the first spherical. Nevertheless it ought to be a group that already has many of the different core gamers in place.
Are the Raiders that group? There ought to be some doubt about that, and the Raiders want to pay attention to that.
