Tracking the Las Vegas Raiders’ formal meetings with NFL draft prospects at the 2026 NFL Combine
The Raiders have a big week ahead of them.
The Las Vegas Raiders and every NFL team are currently at the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine. All week, teams will watch invited players participate in drills.
These coaches, general managers, and scouts will also have the opportunity to speak with these players in a formal setting, such as a meeting or visit. These are called pre-draft visits but are categorized as combine visits. We may have a clue or an idea of who the Raiders might talk to, but there are only so many visits they get and only so much time this week.
Sure, the Combine, for us voyeurs, is to see how these players are physically. However, the Combine is for other things when it comes to the NFL teams. They have already seen these players’ tape and know, for the most part, what they can do athletically. The combination is to get a sense of who these guys are as people. They have to have strong intangibles beyond the tangibles.
“Humility, a great passion to play the game of football,” general manager John Spytek told reporters earlier in the week. “It’s such a hard game. Your competitive spirit has to run really high. You’ve got to be willing to play through a bunch of tough circumstances. And to me, it always goes back to the love of the game. The guys that truly love the game of football, they love to practice, they love to prepare, they love to watch film, they love to play hurt. So, I mean those things – I’m kind of uncompromising on those things.”
There are so many players who fit what the Raiders need tangibly and intangibly. So, who have the Raiders met with? Well, only one has been released so far, as it’s still early in the week.
Raiders’ NFL Combine Meetings
- Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza
- Indiana CB D’Angelo Ponds
- Michigan FB/TE Max Bredeson
- Georgia WR Zachariah Branch
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