The Las Vegas Raiders are one of many first main wild playing cards within the 2025 NFL Draft, which begins on April 24 in Inexperienced Bay. In typical Raiders style, there isn’t a actual consensus on what they could do with their No. 6 total choose, however there are a number of intriguing choices for them.
A quarterback, particularly Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders, could possibly be in play as a long-term choose to take a seat behind veteran Geno Smith for a few years.
They’ve main wants throughout their roster.
However the much more doubtless, and maybe much more intriguing, choice is Boise State operating again Ashton Jeanty.
The Raiders have been the favorites to land the highest operating again prospect, and on Friday common supervisor John Spytek was requested about the potential for taking him on the high of the draft, per NFL.com’s Grant Gordon.
Earlier than he might even reply, head coach Pete Carroll instructed him to “watch out.”
Spytek then talked in regards to the significance of including elite gamers and drew a comparability to Saquon Barkley’s influence on the Philadelphia Eagles.
“I am gonna watch out about speaking about any particular participant. However, extra broadly to the operating again query, I imply, we simply noticed Saquon Barkley simply change the Eagles in a single yr. Now that they had an awesome workforce round him, and it was including an elite participant. I believe whenever you sit the place we sit, the thought is so as to add elite gamers at any place. I do not attempt to devalue any sure place.”
The Jeanty choose goes to be a sophisticated one for no matter workforce finally ends up taking him within the first spherical.
He’s surely one of the vital gifted gamers within the draft, the very best at his place and was a fully dominant participant in faculty. There are plenty of issues to love about him, and he can completely change an offense and a workforce if all the things goes in line with plan.
The secret is it must be the suitable workforce and the suitable offense.
The Barkley comparability truly gives fairly a cautionary story for a workforce just like the Raiders, and Spytek even unintentionally talked about it in his reply: The Eagles already “had an awesome workforce round him.”
Barkley was additionally signed as a free agent. The Eagles didn’t have to make use of a top-10 choose so as to add him into their group.
He was the ultimate piece of their Tremendous Bowl puzzle, not one of many beginning items.
One of many greatest causes the operating again place turned so devalued in recent times wasn’t simply due to how brief their careers are. Additionally it is due to how dependent their manufacturing and influence is on the workforce and scenario round them. They want an awesome line, a robust passing recreation and a very good system for all the things to click on.
Barkley had none of that when he performed for the New York Giants after they chose him with a No. 2 total choose. As a substitute of getting him be the ultimate piece of their offense, he was the piece they tried to construct round. And whereas Barkley had some particular person success, it was not the identical as he skilled in Philadelphia. The workforce success was nowhere near the identical. It was not as a result of he was completely different. The scenario was completely different.
It’s a related story with the latest operating again to be picked within the high 10, Atlanta Falcons operating again Bijan Robinson. He’s nice, dynamic and makes plenty of performs. However remainder of the Falcons offense is so flawed that it has not but made a big impact on their offense or their workforce success.
Jeanty could possibly be a steal and instant influence participant for any person within the first spherical. But it surely ought to be a workforce that already has a lot of the different core gamers in place.
Are the Raiders that workforce? There ought to be some doubt about that, and the Raiders want to concentrate on that.
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