Las Vegas Raiders missed out on the perfect opportunity to address a need before the 2025 NFL Draft
It's no secret that the Las Vegas Raiders need to get former Seattle Seahawks QB Geno Smith more weapons outside of Brock Bowers and Jakobi Meyers. When you can give him as much help as possible, you maximize what you get out of the 34-year-old QB. The Raiders will likely end up drafting a wide […]
It's no secret that the Las Vegas Raiders need to get former Seattle Seahawks QB Geno Smith more weapons outside of Brock Bowers and Jakobi Meyers. When you can give him as much help as possible, you maximize what you get out of the 34-year-old QB.
The Raiders will likely end up drafting a wide receiver or two in the 2025 NFL Draft. Now, where they decide to do that, no one knows, not even them at this point. It's all about seeing how the board, more importantly, their board, starts to look throughout the draft. That could be in the second round, all the way down to the sixth or seventh.
And, yes, they may very well take two of them, because the position group is that thin as things currently stand. But, it didn't have to be that way, as the Raiders could have signed a familiar face to help with the depth and even as a starter behind Meyers and maybe ahead of Tre Tucker.
But, they missed the perfect opportunity.
On Wednesday, Tyler Locker, the former Seahawks QB who played for Pete Carroll and with Smith, signed with the Tennessee Titans. He has been a name thrown out there for the Raiders to target, and that obviously won't be happening, not anytime soon at least. Lockett signed a one-year, $4 million deal.
Lockett seemed to be one of the main guys that the Raiders could target. Now, they could move on to looking at trading for a guy like George Pickens, the Pittsburgh Steelers WR. If they don't want to go the trade route, they could go with Elijah Moore, the former Cleveland Browns WR.
There are still some options out there, but that's only if they want a WR2 and maybe a WR3. They missed an opportunity with Lockett, one that would keep them from having to worry about the WR position as much.
But this draft class has some pretty good WRs. So, only time will tell.
