Two Oakland Raiders listed among CBS Top 100 NFL players

The Oakland Raiders added a ton of talent to the roster this offseason, and in a recent poll of the top-100 players in the league, two made the list.

Heading into the 2019 NFL season, the Oakland Raiders have built up a roster that is vastly superior to the one they ended the 2018 season with. After adding an elite wide receiver via a trade, and hitting on some big free agents, general manager Mike Mayock did a phenomenal job bringing in impact players via the NFL Draft.

With a month before training camp begins, we are starting to see a lot of lists pop up all over the place.

Pete Prisco from CBS Sports recently released his list of the Top-100 players entering 2019, and two Raiders made the list. Both should not surprise any fans of the team, as they will both not only be crucial to the Raiders success in 2019,  but will be arguably the best at their position.

Antonio Brown was the highest-ranked member of the Oakland Raiders, coming in at No. 15 overall in the league according to Prisco. In terms of wide receivers, Brown is rated as the No. 5 wideout in the league behind Julio Jones, DeAndre Hopkins, Odell Beckham Jr., and Michael Thomas.

The other member of the Silver and Black listed is center Rodney Hudson, who barely made the list at No. 93 overall. Hudson is by far one of the better interior linemen in all of football, and many consider him the best center in the game.

Raiders rival Los Angeles (Chargers) have the most selections on the list, as eight current players are ranked within the top-100. The Dallas Cowboys are second with seven, while the New Orleans Saints and Kansas City Chiefs have six.

The No. 1 ranked player, according to Prisco, is Aaron Donald, and it is very hard to question that logic. The second-ranked player is Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes who is coming off an MVP season, while Aaron Rodgers, Von Miller, and former Raiders star Khalil Mack round out the top-5.

Of course, you could make the argument that a few other names could have been added, including Carr, who is entering his sixth season as the starting quarterback in Oakland. Carr has plenty of weapons to choose from in 2019, including Brown, and he has the offensive line, led by Hudson to allow him to flourish.