B
Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders did the meat-and-potatoes work well: B.
by himothy crickets ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 7 picks
· 3 steals
· 2 reaches
The Raiders treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending No. 112 on Jordan Travis a full 31 spots early. Call it a sensible B, earned the boring way.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher. The Pritchett pick is the one they will point to when this weekend is judged.
The roster is better shaped than it was, with cornerback chief among the fixes.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the edge rusher spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 13 they get a matchup weapon at tight end. A clean fit for the roster.
Devontez Walker in the Round 2 slot lands just on the right side of the ledger. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Javon Bullard in the 77th overall pick. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
Jordan Travis at pick No. 112 is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Somehow Nehemiah Pritchett was still sitting there in the 150th pick, and they pounced on premier cornerback value. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Josh Proctor at No. 190. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
They jumped the gun on Jeremy James, taking him earlier than his grade liked. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.