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Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders let Williams fall and pounced. Final grade: A.
by Kanaworms ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 10 picks
· 6 steals
· 0 reaches
This is the pick they will still be bragging about in July: Nohl Williams, the No. 124 name on the board, stolen at the 180th overall pick. This is how you run a draft, and the A reflects it.
They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own. A whole weekend of picks and edge rusher is somehow still a want. Jordan Addison gives the group a proven body among the projects.
The hoard sets up next April more than it helps this September.
The kind of weekend a front office frames and hangs on the wall.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 25 they get a weapon on the perimeter, outstanding value to boot. The biggest hole, addressed.
The board had Kenneth Grant higher than slot 37, and the interior defensive lineman fell to them anyway. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Quinshon Judkins in the 68th overall pick lands just on the right side of the ledger. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
No edge and no loss on Jalen Milroe in pick No. 89; it is a wash and a sensible one. A need, and now a little less of one.
They barely believed it either: Barrett Carter still on the board at the Round 4 slot. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
Circle this one: Kevin Winston Jr. at No. 143 is a fall that decides a draft. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
The board fumbled Nohl Williams all the way to the 180th pick, and they scooped it up. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Tahj Brooks at pick 213 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Kobe Hudson at Round 6, Pick 39 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
A straight-up fair deal on Carson Vinson at the Round 7 slot, value and slot in agreement. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.