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The Failed First Round Picks Of The Raiders

Let’s not fool ourselves. You don’t go through a decade+ of awful football without making some miserable mistakes. As we’ve come to learn as faithful members of Raider Nation mistakes come in all…Read More

Raiders Options For Third Round Pick

Reggie McKenzie has recently stated that if he had the opportunity to use the Raider’s long lost 17th overall pick, he would’ve chosen Alabama outside linebacker Courtney Upshaw. This is no…Read More

Raiders Interested In Joey Clinkscales

Joey Clinkscales, the Jet’s draft expert and VP of College Scouting will most likely be parting ways with New York following this weekend. The Raiders have had an unorthodox style of drafting over…Read More

Raiders Draft Flashback: Class of 2008

Every year at this time the football world starts looking to the future. College teams begin their spring practices while pro teams evaluate the newest crop of talent. Inevitably the football starved…Read More

Brian Billick Had JaMarcus Russell Over Calvin Johnson Too

Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things but Brian Billick says his Baltimore Ravens had JaMarcus Russell as the “highest rated player” he’d ever seen on a draft board. Now Billick’s…Read More

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Talking Raiders Draft With NFL Mocks

I am an admitted football nerd. It starts with high school games on Fridays in the fall, followed by…Read More

Raiders Draft Preview: Demario Davis

With free agency slowing to a crawl all NFL eyes are shifting towards the draft. This week Reggie McKenzie…Read More

Raiders Are Draft Outsiders

As we speak the Oakland Raiders scouting department is hard at work trying to find the next…Travis…Read More

The Draft is NFL’s Version of Reality TV

So, here we are. Sitting idly as the NFL season slowly dissolves before our very eyes. Yet that hasn’t…Read More

Raiders draft sleeper OT Jared Veldheer

After playing it safe for the first two rounds, the Raiders finally rolled the dice. In the third round…Read More

Raiders select DT Lamarr Houston in second round

After two trades and 5 minutes of total confusion that brought the NFL draft to a screeching halt, the…Read More

The book on Rolando McClain

When all else fails, simply draft the best player available. This is a golden rule of drafting that…Read More

Rolando McClain highlights

With the first round of the draft in the books, it’s time for all the talking heads to get back on…Read More

Al Davis is tame, Raiders draft Rolando McClain

Unlike previous drafts, there were no moans or groans after Roger Goodell announced the pick turned…Read More

Channeling my inner Al Davis

One day after the FanSided family teamed with CBS Sports to conduct a live mock draft, the good folks…Read More

How far will the Raiders reach in the draft?

If Al Davis were a superhero, he’d be Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic). Like Richards, Davis has the…Read More

Memo to Al Davis: Forget the stopwatch, fix the trenches

You can’t build a house without first laying a proper foundation. What’s true in the world of construction…Read More