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Las Vegas Raiders

The Raiders let McCord fall and pounced. Final grade: D.

by [email protected] · 2025 NFL Draft · 15 picks · 6 steals · 3 reaches
Value B
Need B
Trades F
Future D+

If confidence were a draft strategy, the Raiders would have aced it. Nick Martin at pick No. 215 is 51 spots clear of where he belonged. Put together, it is a D.

That McCord pick is the receipt they will wave around later. Overpaying at the table undid a lot of the good work elsewhere.

That offensive lineman hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall. It is a win-now wager, and the future is the stake.

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

Pick-by-Pick

R1.21 · Pick 21 · Shemar Stewart · DE-EDGE · rank 15
In No. 21 they get a double-digit-sack hope. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
R1.22 · Pick 22 · Emeka Egbuka · WR · rank 25
In slot 22 they get a true top target at fair value. The biggest hole, addressed.
R2.1 · Pick 33 · Kenneth Grant · DT · rank 21
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Kenneth Grant at pick No. 33 is the proof. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
R2.5 · Pick 37 · Jihaad Campbell · LB · rank 41
No drama and no debate, Jihaad Campbell went about where he belonged in the 37th pick. A minor need, but a need all the same.
R2.13 · Pick 45 · Xavier Watts · S · rank 46
A market-rate safety, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Xavier Watts. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
R3.3 · Pick 67 · Darien Porter · CB · rank 76
Darien Porter at the Round 3 slot is a clear overpay, with better names still on the board. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R3.4 · Pick 68 · Quinshon Judkins · RB · rank 66
Quinshon Judkins at pick No. 68 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R3.16 · Pick 80 · Trey Amos · CB · rank 51
They barely believed it either: Trey Amos still on the board at Round 3, Pick 16. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R3.22 · Pick 86 · Isaiah Bond · WR · rank 75
Isaiah Bond is a better player than No. 86 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R4.6 · Pick 108 · Brashard Smith · RB · rank 111
They took Brashard Smith at par in slot 108, which is nothing to complain about. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R5.5 · Pick 143 · Bhayshul Tuten · RB · rank 151
A reach for Bhayshul Tuten in the 143rd overall pick; a little patience would have been rewarded. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
R6.4 · Pick 180 · Kyle McCord · QB · rank 120
They robbed the room for Kyle McCord here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R6.33 · Pick 209 · Oronde Gadsden II · TE · rank 180
A tight end of that caliber at pick No. 209 is the definition of value, full stop. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
R6.37 · Pick 213 · Jaylen Reed · S · rank 179
Taking Jaylen Reed in the 213th overall pick is close to grand larceny; a safety that good had no business lasting this long. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
R6.39 · Pick 215 · Nick Martin · LB · rank 266
Value said wait; Nick Martin in the 215th pick says they were not listening. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.
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