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 any actual consensus on what they may do with their No. 6 general choose, however there are a number of intriguing choices for them.
A quarterback, particularly Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, might be in play as a long-term choose to take a seat behind veteran Geno Smith for a few years.
They’ve main wants throughout their roster.
However the much more seemingly, and maybe much 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 potential of taking him on the high of the draft, per NFL.com’s Grant Gordon.
Earlier than he might even reply, head coach Pete Carroll advised him to “watch out.”
Spytek then talked concerning the significance of including elite gamers and drew a comparability to Saquon Barkley’s impression 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 terrific staff round him, and it was including an elite participant. I believe once 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 choose goes to be a sophisticated one for no matter staff finally ends up taking him within the first spherical.
He’s definitely one of the proficient gamers within the draft, the very best at his place and was a fully dominant participant in school. There are lots of issues to love about him, and he can completely change an offense and a staff if all the things goes in keeping with plan.
The bottom line is it must be the best staff and the best offense.
The Barkley comparability truly gives fairly a cautionary story for a staff just like the Raiders, and Spytek even unintentionally talked about it in his reply: The Eagles already “had a terrific staff round him.”
Barkley was additionally signed as a free agent. The Eagles didn’t have to make use of a top-10 choose 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 largest causes the working again place grew to become so devalued lately wasn’t simply due to how quick their careers are. It’s also due to how dependent their manufacturing and impression is on the staff and scenario round them. They want a terrific line, a robust passing sport and system for all the things 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 choose. As a substitute 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 staff success was nowhere near the identical. It was not as a result of he was totally different. The scenario was totally different.
It’s a comparable story with the newest working again to be picked within the high 10, Atlanta Falcons working again Bijan Robinson. He’s nice, dynamic and makes lots 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 staff success.
Jeanty might be a steal and rapid impression participant for anyone within the first spherical. But it surely must be a staff that already has a lot of the different core gamers in place.
Are the Raiders that staff? There must be some doubt about that, and the Raiders want to pay attention to that.
