Howard Smith-US PRESSWIRE

The FanSided Sports family is deep. As proof of that I offer you the fact that there are two sites dedicated to strictly covering the NFL Draft year round.

NFL Mocks and With The First Pick are two of the best NFL draft websites you’ll find and both have been very busy lately. Recently we did a quick sit down with NFL Mocks to talk about the upcoming draft from a Raider perspective. Yesterday With The First Pick jumped right in and did a full seven round mock of the Raiders draft. You can see their full draft prognostication here.

Naturally the Raiders don’t have a full seven rounds worth of draft picks. Reggie McKenzie doesn’t even have a 7^th round pick let alone a first round selection this year so Oakland’s draft dilemma is a tough one. But much like we hope McKenzie will do Sayre Bedinger of With The First Pick does a nice job of finding talent for the Raiders in most every round.

Bedinger’s got the Raiders getting their 3-4 nose tackle in the 4^th round by finding great value in selecting Alabama’s Josh Chapman. Dennis Allen hasn’t stated it yet but the feeling is that there will be some usage of the 3-4 with a possible switch to running the scheme exclusively.

There are also some other picks that are an intriguing prospect for McKenzie and company like Oklahoma tight end James Hanna becoming a Raider in the fifth round, a pick Bedinger refers to as “almost too typical” for Oakland.

So take a moment to cruise on over to With The First Pick to share your opinion of the 7^th round mock of the Raiders. And be sure to keep coming back as FanSided will have you covered for all you need leading up to the draft.

Kyle Terada-US PRESSWIRE

I am an admitted football nerd. It starts with high school games on Fridays in the fall, followed by college on Saturdays and naturally the Raiders and the NFL on Sundays. My weekends are spent watching any and every game I possibly can, scanning the field for every player that catches my eye. So when it comes time to talk draft it’s as if the entire year has been prep for this big final exam.

Naturally I can’t do it all by myself. Being that football is a team sport it’s only natural that football blogging should require the same team effort.

If you’re among the great readers of JBB then you’ve no doubt been reading many of the draft profiles we’ve been publishing daily to help get Raider Nation ready for the NFL’s big dog and pony show. As much ball as I do watch I won’t profess to have intimate knowledge of every prospect we breakdown. That’s where my boys over at NFL Mocks have my back. Their prospect database and round the clock coverage of all things draft related helps make life much easier for me.

Recently NFL Mocks co-editor Jesse Bartolis reached out to yours truly to discuss the past, present and future drafts of the Oakland Raiders. You can read the full interview here.

Jesse and his staff work tirelessly to get all the latest and greatest info and opinions on the draft and do so year round. So I’d highly suggest that after you’re done doing your daily reading of JBB that you cruise over to NFL Mocks. You don’t have to be a draft insider to know what they know. All you’ve got to do is make NFL Mocks a daily read.

Bartolis and his staff do an amazingly thorough job as evident by the great questions Jesse tossed my way the other night. In my haste to get in prime position to watch the Raiders chump the Chargers I didn’t get a chance to share the interview with the great readers of JBB. So here it is as me and Jesse talked everything from grading recent Raider drafts to my taste in college football.

Hope you enjoy!

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