RAIDERS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B

Sanders B

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Quarterback settled, Sanders in the fold, and a B for the Raiders.

by [email protected] · 2025 NFL Draft · 13 picks · 10 steals · 2 reaches
Value B+
Need B
Trades B
Future B-

This is the pick they will still be bragging about in July: Cam Skattebo, the No. 105 name on the board, stolen at the 216th overall pick.

So much rides on Shedeur Sanders that the rest of the class almost grades on a curve behind him. They are betting Thornton Jr. proves the room right and everyone else wrong.

The edge rusher spot stays a question, and it was the one they most needed an answer at.

A competent weekend that does not make headlines and does not need to.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.6 · Pick 6 · Shedeur Sanders · QB · rank 6
In the Round 1 slot they get their guy under center for the next decade at fair value.
R2.18 · Pick 50 · Jalon Walker · LB · rank 20
Jalon Walker at Round 2, Pick 18 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R3.4 · Pick 68 · TreVeyon Henderson · RB · rank 55
TreVeyon Henderson at No. 68 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. A need, and now a little less of one.
R3.9 · Pick 73 · Omarion Hampton · RB · rank 30
A running back of that caliber at pick No. 73 is the definition of value, full stop. The roster fit checks out.
R3.18 · Pick 82 · Alfred Collins · DT · rank 56
Steal is underselling it; Alfred Collins at slot 82 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R4.5 · Pick 106 · Savion Williams · WR · rank 98
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Savion Williams at pick 106 is the proof. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R4.35 · Pick 136 · Dont'e Thornton Jr. · WR · rank 184
Dont'e Thornton Jr. at the 136th overall pick is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R5.5 · Pick 142 · Danny Stutsman · LB · rank 90
They robbed the room for Danny Stutsman here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It is more luxury than necessity; they were already set here.
R6.3 · Pick 178 · Smael Mondon Jr. · LB · rank 110
You do not let a linebacker like Smael Mondon Jr. reach the Round 6 slot and blink. They did not. Pure best-available; the position was not exactly begging.
R6.35 · Pick 210 · Oronde Gadsden II · TE · rank 142
Oronde Gadsden II at Round 6, Pick 35 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R6.37 · Pick 212 · Shilo Sanders · S · rank 258
Shilo Sanders at the Round 6 slot is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. A minor itch, scratched.
R6.41 · Pick 216 · Cam Skattebo · RB · rank 105
Cam Skattebo in the 216th pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R7.6 · Pick 222 · Luke Lachey · TE · rank 195
The board fumbled Luke Lachey all the way to pick No. 222, and they scooped it up. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.