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Las Vegas Raiders

The Raiders won the night they stopped Higgins from sliding. Grade: D-.

by hooly38 · 2025 NFL Draft · 12 picks · 8 steals · 0 reaches
Value B
Need B+
Trades F
Future C-

You can lose a draft before you make a pick. The Raiders did it at the trade table, overpaying to chase players the board did not price nearly as high. A weekend that fought the value and lost, hence the D-.

The Higgins steal is the beam this whole class leans on. They punted on quarterback, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest.

It is a win-now wager, and the future is the stake. The skill positions did well by the weekend.

Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even, and quarterback is still a hole.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.10 · Pick 10 · Tetairoa McMillan · WR · rank 9
In pick 10 they get a true top target. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
R2.5 · Pick 37 · Jack Sawyer · DE-EDGE · rank 33
Nothing to complain about; Jack Sawyer went a shade earlier than his grade, which is fine. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R2.13 · Pick 45 · Aireontae Ersery · OT · rank 48
By-the-book stuff, Aireontae Ersery at the 45th pick squarely in line with his ranking. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R2.31 · Pick 63 · Dylan Sampson · RB · rank 61
Dylan Sampson at the Round 2 slot is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R3.2 · Pick 66 · Harold Fannin Jr. · TE · rank 54
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Harold Fannin Jr. in the 66th overall pick. A need, and now a little less of one.
R3.9 · Pick 73 · TreVeyon Henderson · RB · rank 55
Circle this one: TreVeyon Henderson at pick No. 73 is a fall that decides a draft. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R3.14 · Pick 78 · Alfred Collins · DT · rank 56
A interior defensive lineman of that caliber at pick No. 78 is the definition of value, full stop. It fills a real need, too.
R3.21 · Pick 85 · Maxwell Hairston · CB · rank 73
A tidy bit of business in slot 85, where Maxwell Hairston graded well above the range. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R4.1 · Pick 103 · Jack Bech · WR · rank 66
Jack Bech at Round 4, Pick 1 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R4.8 · Pick 110 · Denzel Burke · CB · rank 88
Somehow Denzel Burke was still sitting there in the Round 4 slot, and they pounced on premier cornerback value. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R5.5 · Pick 143 · Anthony Belton · OT · rank 115
Anthony Belton at pick 143 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R7.6 · Pick 222 · Jay Higgins · LB · rank 183
They robbed the room for Jay Higgins here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
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