B
Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders cashed the board's mistake on Stutsman: B.
by NetRaider ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 8 steals
· 1 reaches
The board owed the Raiders one, and it paid up: Danny Stutsman, the No. 86 name on the board, sitting there at slot 178 like a gift left on the doorstep. Solid and sensible more than spectacular: a B.
The Sapp reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade. For all the activity, wide receiver went untouched, which is hard to explain.
They were the ones paying the moving tax this weekend. The future picks help the war chest more than the win-now roster.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the wide receiver spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 11 they get a blindside protector, and a steal at that. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Circle this one: Malaki Starks at the 37th pick is a fall that decides a draft. It adds depth where they could use a little.
A top-tier linebacker at a bargain, Jalon Walker in No. 68, plain and simple. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
They let Dylan Fairchild come to them and pounced at the 73rd overall pick. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Deone Walker at pick No. 106 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. The roster fit checks out.
The board fumbled Cam Skattebo all the way to pick 137, and they scooped it up. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Maxwell Hairston at the Round 5 slot is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
They robbed the room for Danny Stutsman here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
Ty Hamilton at the 212th pick is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Tyreak Sapp at slot 216 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
A clean, defensible pick in the 222nd overall pick with a little surplus value in Jonah Monheim. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.