D-
Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders drew a line under the quarterback search with Ward: D-.
by Texxx ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 0 steals
· 7 reaches
It is the swing that defines the weekend: Jasheen Davis in No. 103, a good 37 spots before the room expected him.
They handed away value on the phones that the picks cannot earn back. Everything downstream of Cam Ward depends on Cam Ward, and the building knows it.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through cornerback.
Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 7 they get a franchise quarterback, though the board says they badly overpaid. A real need, handled.
Abdul Carter at the 19th overall pick is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
In the 29th pick they get a double-digit-sack hope at fair value. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Emery Jones Jr. at slot 39 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
The board had cheaper options than Elic Ayomanor at the Round 2 slot, and it noticed. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Devin Neal at No. 71 is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for Jasheen Davis. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
They paid up for Nick Emmanwori at Round 4, Pick 29 when waiting would have done the job. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
A conviction pick on Tonka Hemingway at the Round 5 slot that the board grades a round light. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
No drama and no debate, Jayden Higgins went about where he belonged in pick No. 167. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
They reached a country mile for Garrett Dellinger at the 199th pick, and the board is aghast. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.