B
Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders let Williams fall into their laps, and walked away with a B.
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2025 NFL Draft
· 15 picks
· 10 steals
· 0 reaches
Call it larceny. Savion Williams sat on the board until the Round 5 slot, and the Raiders did not need to be asked twice.
They won the margins on every swap, and it adds up fast. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher.
They are betting the present roster is worth a lighter draft next spring.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 9 they get a run-stuffing presence up front. A real need, handled.
A slide stopped in the 37th overall pick, with Nick Emmanwori worth more than the price. A minor itch, scratched.
A reasonable price with a little left over, TreVeyon Henderson in Round 2, Pick 26. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
They paid sticker price for Jayden Higgins in slot 68, and that is fine. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
No drama and no debate, Tate Ratledge went about where he belonged in No. 71. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Elic Ayomanor at the 78th pick 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.
By-the-book stuff, Jalen Milroe at the Round 3 slot squarely in line with his ranking. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
They let Donovan Jackson come to them and pounced at pick No. 93. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
They will replay Devin Neal at the 107th pick for years; that is how good the value is. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
A top-tier linebacker at a bargain, Danny Stutsman in No. 127, plain and simple. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Brashard Smith at the Round 5 slot is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Steal is underselling it; Savion Williams at Round 5, Pick 14 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Dont'e Thornton Jr. at pick 182 is money in the bank, a wide receiver taken below his worth. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Roc Taylor in the 214th overall pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
They robbed the room for Quincy Riley here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.