The Las Vegas Raiders‘ no good, very unhealthy season simply acquired 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 beneath 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 once again in Week 10, this time for backup Desmond Ridder, within the midst of a, 41-24, blowout loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Minshew returned beneath heart in Week 11 as the named starter and saved the job till his unlucky damage in the course of the workforce’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.
Nicely, one starting-caliber quarterback shall be coming into the market on Monday and may very well 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 desires to play for a contender and Rapoport notes San Francisco and Baltimore are among the many different groups .
However Las Vegas would provide the 27-year previous a chance to audition for the full-time beginning function in a franchise that may’ve seemingly been spending a first-round choose on a rookie passer in April anyhow.
Jones may find yourself being a cheap free agent addition that gives Las Vegas with flexibility so as to add a weapon or talent place increase with its seemingly excessive first-round choice.
Pierce can be a former Large and will discover that as a bonding second along with his potential new sign caller. If issues do not work out and Pierce forced from the hot seat, then Jones will nonetheless have the possibility to discover a new house in conventional free company.
It appears like a win-win for each events however whether or not an precise settlement materializes within the coming days is left to be seen.
