The Raiders treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending No. 215 on Donovan Smith a full 59 spots early. Call it a sensible B-, earned the boring way.

If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher. The Walker pick is the one they will point to when this weekend is judged. Job largely done: cornerback settled and 6 of 8 of the wish list covered.

They came away with juice, if not much beef up front.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.