B-
Las Vegas Raiders
The Raiders kept it disciplined and banked a B-.
by Wyattw90 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 9 picks
· 3 steals
· 3 reaches
There is reaching, and then there is Garrett Dellinger at slot 215. The Raiders jumped the board by 82 and dared it to prove them wrong. They moved the roster forward and banked a B- for it.
They banked enough surplus on Fortune to cover a lot of smaller sins. For all the activity, edge rusher went untouched, which is hard to explain. With edge rusher and quarterback unsolved, spending premium capital on specialist is the choice that costs them.
A competent weekend that does not make headlines and does not need to.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 6 they get a featured back. A real need, handled.
Value with a capital V on Colston Loveland in pick 37, a genuine coup. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Nothing to complain about; Xavier Restrepo went a shade earlier than his grade, which is fine. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
The eyebrow-raiser of the weekend. They went specialist with Ryan Fitzgerald while clear needs at edge rusher and quarterback sat open.
Aeneas Peebles in the 143rd pick is exactly on the number, no argument either way. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
The board fumbled O'Donnell Fortune all the way to the Round 6 slot, and they scooped it up. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
They will replay Tahj Brooks at pick 213 for years; that is how good the value is. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Garrett Dellinger in Round 6, Pick 39 is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
John Williams at the Round 7 slot is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.