Las Vegas Raiders to watch in their Wild Card matchup vs Cincinnati
By Alex Perl
If you are still catching your breath from the Raiders thrilling and stressful victory over the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 18, well you do not have much time to recover.
The Las Vegas Raiders are in the playoffs for the first time since 2016, a year in which they weren’t even in Vegas, but Oakland was the home backdrop.
2016 was not a good year for the Raiders, the loss of starting quarterback Derek Carr on Christmas Eve to injury doomed the Silver and Black as they lost in the Wild Card round against the Houston Texans. This go-round, Carr is available and looking to avenge that season.
Facing a team in the Cincinnati Bengals that beat the Raiders earlier this season, it will be on Las Vegas to overturn that decision and show that they have not only improved since that loss but show that they are a more cohesive unit, after all of the drama that was surrounding the team around that time in the season.
Nevertheless, let’s take a look at three Raiders to watch in this highly anticipated AFC playoff matchup.