NFL analyst proposes draft day trade that makes too much sense for Raiders
The Las Vegas Raiders could be a team that is active during the 2023 NFL Draft. No, they likely won't be moving their number seven overall pick, because they worked hard to get that. And by working hard I mean they weren't very good. But, they do have 12 picks in this upcoming draft, and […]
The Las Vegas Raiders could be a team that is active during the 2023 NFL Draft. No, they likely won't be moving their number seven overall pick, because they worked hard to get that. And by working hard I mean they weren't very good.
But, they do have 12 picks in this upcoming draft, and teams make moves more often than not it seems, especially teams with a lot of capital to give up. The Raiders have needs everywhere, and I'm sure they wouldn't be opposed to giving up some of their later picks to get another higher pick.
One NFL analyst has the Raiders doing just that with an NFC foe.
Raiders receive:
No. 30 overall (Round 1)
Eagles receive:
No. 38 overall (Round 2)
No. 109 overall (Round 4)
2024 third-round choice
In 2014, Minnesota traded into the final spot of the first round to select Teddy Bridgewater. Four years later, in 2018, Baltimore moved into the 32nd spot for Lamar Jackson. If time is truly a flat circle, then now, five years after that, it's time for another team to make an aggressive upward move for a quarterback near the end of Round 1. Even if the Raiders don't select a QB seventh overall, they could still presumably be in the market for an up-and-coming signal-caller after signing Jimmy Garoppolo to a mid-level starter contract (three years, $72.75 million), not least because the veteran has missed time due to injuries, while 2022 backup Jarrett Stidham signed with Denver. In this scenario, former Tennessee and Virginia Tech quarterback Hendon Hooker would be the most likely target, if he has not already heard his name called at the podium in Kansas City. Roseman and the Eagles have been down this road before — in 2018, in fact, when they received second and fourth-round picks and a future second-rounder from Baltimore, allowing the Ravens to select Jackson. Las Vegas gives up a future third in this package, not a second, because Philadelphia loses just eight spots in this deal instead of 20, as in the 2018 Ravens trade. I know I already tabbed the Eagles to trade down from the 10th overall spot, but it is plausible for them to move out of first-round choices multiple times, as Baltimore (2018) and Seattle (2017, 2019) recently did.
Reuter is basically suggesting there could be a trade we see the Raiders move up to get a quarterback if they don't get one with their first pick. Most expect Vegas to grab defense or offensive line with that first pick, but there are of course rumors swirling around that they could go quarterback.
Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler saying they will go best man available definitely help those rumors too, as the best man available could very well be a quarterback. From what the general public has heard though, they are really interested in Bryce Young and C.J. Stroud as the quarterbacks in the draft.
But, as we all know, those guys are likely going in the top three of the draft. So, let's just hope that what we are hearing is true, and they go for defense. If they were to trade up into the first round using some of their later picks, for, let's say the Eagles pick as Reuter said, there are still a few guys they could target.
Hendon Hooker will likely be there, as he was a guy who was a Heisman candidate at one point last season, or even Tanner McKee from Stanford who is a top 40 player in this draft on a lot of people's boards. Both guys would be developmental pieces and wouldn't have to play for a few years, but could play if they had to with Garoppolo's injury history.
Trading up makes too much sense and I could easily see the Raiders doing a trade like that.
