RAIDERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B-

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Las Vegas Raiders

The Raiders let Higgins fall into their laps, and walked away with a B-.

by Max420 · 2025 NFL Draft · 10 picks · 6 steals · 1 reaches
Value B
Need B-
Trades B-
Future B-

Somewhere a general manager is explaining how Jay Higgins got past him. The Raiders do not have to explain a thing at the 212th pick. Good, not great, and the B- says as much.

That edge rusher hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall. They are betting Grant proves the room right and everyone else wrong. Wide receiver was the priority and it is no longer a question, which is most of the job.

Building through the lines is a philosophy, and they stuck to it.

Add it up and it is a good, unfussy class.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.6 · Pick 6 · Mason Graham · DT · rank 6
In pick 6 they get a load in the middle at fair value. A real need, handled.
R2.5 · Pick 37 · Tyler Booker · OG · rank 37
A straight-up fair deal on Tyler Booker at the Round 2 slot, value and slot in agreement. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
R3.4 · Pick 68 · Xavier Watts · S · rank 48
Circle this one: Xavier Watts at pick No. 68 is a fall that decides a draft. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
R3.9 · Pick 73 · Charles Grant · OT · rank 87
They liked Charles Grant enough to skip the value, taking him in Round 3, Pick 9. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R4.5 · Pick 106 · Tez Johnson · WR · rank 92
Tez Johnson is a better player than slot 106 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R5.5 · Pick 142 · Kevin Winston Jr. · S · rank 90
Somehow Kevin Winston Jr. was still sitting there in No. 142, and they pounced on premier safety value. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
R6.3 · Pick 178 · Brashard Smith · RB · rank 99
A top-tier running back at a bargain, Brashard Smith in the 178th overall pick, plain and simple. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
R6.37 · Pick 212 · Jay Higgins · LB · rank 118
Taking Jay Higgins in the 212th pick is close to grand larceny; a linebacker that good had no business lasting this long. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
R6.41 · Pick 216 · Carson Schwesinger · LB · rank 124
The board fumbled Carson Schwesinger all the way to pick No. 216, and they scooped it up. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
R7.6 · Pick 222 · Logan Parr · OG · rank 225
By-the-book stuff, Logan Parr at the 222nd pick squarely in line with his ranking. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
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