It's officially the off-season for the Silver and Black. After several teams shot their draft position in the foot, the Raiders will be picking 6th.

That's high enough to try to trade up for one of the QB's, but I expect it won't be easy to pry those picks away from Tennessee or Cleveland, nor will it be easy to leap frog the Giants. So, let's see who we can get at 6th.

Mock Draft

6th Pick: DT Mason Graham 37th Pick: QB Jalen Milroe 68th Pick: WR Elic Ayomanor 73rd Pick: OT Grey Zabel 107th Pick: RB TreVeyon Henderson 142nd Pick: CB Mello Dotson 179th Pick: OG Jaeden Roberts 212th Pick: S Dante Trader Jr 216th Pick: QB Will Howard 222nd Pick: DE Kaimon Rucker

In lieu of a top QB, I'm going BPA with the first pick. The Raiders defensive line dramatically over-performed this season, considering the unbelievable injuries. Mason Graham will round out a line that also starts Maxx Crosby, Christian Wilkins, and Malcolm Koonce/Tyree Wilson. I hope we can keep the interim D-line coach, because he's done a great job and unearthed some promising rotation level talent.

For QB, I ended up going with the "heir and a spare" strategy. There's a lot of uncertainty around Milroe, so I took a flyer on the Ohio State QB in the 7th. The nice thing about having a competent high-end backup QB already is that drafting a day 1 starter isn't urgent. The Raiders can swing for the fences.

Otherwise, the focus was upgrading the offense and filling in depth on defense.

59 sats \ 2 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 6 Jan

This is a mistake. QB more important!!

Who shot themselves in the foot??

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 6 Jan

I still got the third best QB in the draft.

Pats, Jets, and Panthers all won yesterday, which hurt their draft positions.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 6 Jan

lmao will the Jets admit they need a new QB?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 6 Jan

Two QBs. I like it and Mason Graham on the DLine with Wilkins and Crosby would potentially be a dominant DLine.

This is definitely one of your better ones.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 6 Jan

The offense isn't that far from being competent and the defense isn't that far from being dominant.

The big questions are what's going to happen with the coaching staff. AP did some more dumb stuff in that final game, but at the same time his guys were playing their asses off right to the end.