Oakland Raiders: Top-20 players of the 21st Century
By Brad Weiss
Michael Crabtree (2015-2017)
It may have only been three short years, but in the time that Michael Crabtree was with the Oakland Raiders, he made a ton of big-time catches. In fact, the marriage between the Raiders and Crabtree should have came years earlier, as they passed up on him in the 2009 NFL Draft to select fellow wideout Darrius Heyward-Bey.
Six years later, in 2015, the Raiders finally got their hands on Crabtree, and he showed a knack for getting his hands on the football. In 46 games in the Silver and Black, Crabtree racked up over 230 catches, and finished his Raiders career with more than 2,500 yards and 25 touchdowns in his three seasons.
One of the more clutch wideouts in the game, Crabtree racked up eight or more touchdowns in every season in Oakland, while teaming with Amari Cooper to give Derek Carr a solid tandem on the outside. He was released by the team prior to the 2018 NFL season, and latched on with Baltimore, but for a short time, he was certainly fun to watch for the Raiders.