Las Vegas Raiders still have wide receiver options outside of the NFL Draft
By Daniel Davis
Free agency: Emmanuel Sanders
Emmanuel Sanders was traded from the Denver Broncos to the San Francisco 49ers mid-season, after a dispute between John Elway and Sanders went south. Sanders is a do-it-all player. Even at 33, his value is in the screen game and the short slant game where he can get off the ball and run his route quickly.
Last season, Derek Carr was most efficient on passes less than 20 yards.
What impresses me most about Sanders is his hands. On 61 targets for the 49ers he only dropped one pass. He then caught 70% of his passes within an offense which ran the ball first and threw it second. Even while on the Broncos, on over 40 targets he didn’t drop a single pass, that would give him over 100 targets for the season, and only one drop.
George Kittle was the main receiver of the 49ers, just like Waller is for the Raiders, and I think Sanders can help take some pressure off Waller. In addition, he could help spread the defense out a little bit more rather than using play-action passes to get the receivers open.
Look, Sanders is no Amari Cooper, I understand that, but market value for a player in his position right now is roughly about $10 million a year, and I think with a fully guaranteed contract, they could get him for 1-year, $8 million with all of it guaranteed money.