B+
Las Vegas Raiders
Haynes should have been long gone. The Raiders pounced, and earned a B+.
by TheMemeBroker ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 5 steals
· 0 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Christian Haynes, Round 4, Pick 12, roughly 33 picks past where he belonged. More right than wrong, and a B+ to match.
The wide receiver spot stays a question, and it was the one they most needed an answer at. A modest surplus at the table, banked quietly.
They left with edge rusher solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.
Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 13th overall pick they get juice off the edge. The biggest hole, addressed.
T.J. Tampa at slot 53 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
They robbed the room for Kris Jenkins here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Circle this one: Christian Haynes at pick 112 is a fall that decides a draft. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Javion Cohen at Round 5, Pick 14. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
A slide stopped in No. 190, with Sam Hartman worth more than the price. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Sheridan Jones at the 234th pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
They did well to land Eric Gentry in pick No. 242, just ahead of his grade. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.