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Las Vegas Raiders

The Raiders found their guy under center in Daniels: D-.

by TimCart · 2024 NFL Draft · 11 picks · 5 steals · 1 reaches
Value B
Need B+
Trades F
Future C+

When a board-topper like Dwight McGlothern slides to Round 7, Pick 9, you do not overthink it, and the Raiders did not. The process wobbled, and the D- is where it lands.

Byrd has a lot of ground to make up just to look fairly priced. They lost the exchange badly enough to drag the whole class down.

So much rides on Jayden Daniels that the rest of the class almost grades on a curve behind him. The running back hole is the one line item this class does not answer.

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

Pick-by-Pick

R1.4 · Pick 4 · Jayden Daniels · QB · rank 7
In slot 4 they get their guy under center for the next decade. A clean fit for the roster.
R1.13 · Pick 13 · Olumuyiwa Fashanu · OT · rank 8
A clean, defensible pick in the 13th pick with a little surplus value in Olumuyiwa Fashanu. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
R2.12 · Pick 44 · Chop Robinson · DE-EDGE · rank 21
They barely believed it either: Chop Robinson still on the board at No. 44. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R4.1 · Pick 101 · Brenden Rice · WR · rank 96
A tidy little value on Brenden Rice in Round 4, Pick 1, a step better than break-even. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R4.12 · Pick 112 · Zak Zinter · OG · rank 105
Good price on Zak Zinter in the 112th overall pick, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R5.12 · Pick 148 · Kalen King · CB · rank 139
They read the board right and Kalen King was the payoff at pick 148. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R5.30 · Pick 166 · Walter Rouse · OT · rank 163
Walter Rouse at the 166th pick nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R6.33 · Pick 208 · Cornelius Johnson · WR · rank 188
Cornelius Johnson in the Round 6 slot is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R7.3 · Pick 223 · Solomon Byrd · DE-EDGE · rank 257
This one needs a full-page explanation: Solomon Byrd in pick No. 223, miles early. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R7.9 · Pick 229 · Dwight McGlothern · CB · rank 161
Dwight McGlothern in slot 229 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R7.20 · Pick 240 · Caedan Wallace · OT · rank 213
Caedan Wallace at No. 240 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
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