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Las Vegas Raiders

A franchise passer in Sanders headlines a D weekend for the Raiders.

by BeastOnTheGrid · 2025 NFL Draft · 10 picks · 6 steals · 2 reaches
Value B
Need B
Trades F
Future B-

The Raiders did not reach, did not trade up, did not blink. They just waited, and Nicholas Singleton fell into slot 212. The math is unkind, and the D follows.

Morrison has a lot of ground to make up just to look fairly priced. The trade table is where this weekend went wrong. The whole projection now runs through Shedeur Sanders; hit there and everything else looks smarter.

They will regret leaving edge rusher for another day if the season turns on it.

Add it up and it is a weekend the front office will hope everyone forgets, edge rusher very much included.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.3 · Pick 3 · Shedeur Sanders · QB · rank 3
In No. 3 they get their quarterback of the future at fair value. A clean fit for the roster.
R2.2 · Pick 34 · Omarion Hampton · RB · rank 15
Omarion Hampton in the 34th overall pick is a gift, value that borders on unfair. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R3.1 · Pick 65 · Tyler Booker · OG · rank 50
Nice patience on Tyler Booker, who had no business lasting to pick 65. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R3.5 · Pick 69 · Malaki Starks · S · rank 19
They robbed the room for Malaki Starks here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A minor itch, scratched.
R4.3 · Pick 104 · Smael Mondon Jr. · LB · rank 42
Taking Smael Mondon Jr. in slot 104 is close to grand larceny; a linebacker that good had no business lasting this long. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
R5.2 · Pick 140 · Benjamin Morrison · CB · rank 199
Benjamin Morrison in the 140th overall pick is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R6.2 · Pick 177 · Ricky White III · WR · rank 183
They paid sticker price for Ricky White III in Round 6, Pick 2, and that is fine. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R6.37 · Pick 212 · Nicholas Singleton · RB · rank 103
A top-tier running back at a bargain, Nicholas Singleton in No. 212, plain and simple. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
R7.2 · Pick 216 · Barrett Carter · LB · rank 175
Barrett Carter at the Round 7 slot is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. They doubled down on a strength rather than a need.
R7.5 · Pick 219 · Shilo Sanders · S · rank 247
A big swing on Shilo Sanders at the 219th pick, well ahead of any board in the building. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.