Las Vegas Raiders: Grading the 2020 Draft class after Year 2
By Nico Di Fede
Round 4, Pick 139: Amik Robertson, CB
Amik Robertson was an undersized but feisty corner that fans were excited about after his selection. Despite playing on the outside in college, he was projected to be kicked inside and hopefully end up the future nickel corner for the Raiders defense.
Robertson didn’t play but sparingly his rookie season, but struggled in the spread-out opportunities he did receive. He allowed five catches on the six times he was targeted and earned a 42.2 grade from PFF.
With the emergence of Nate Hobbs, who as a rookie is already one of the better nickel corners in the league, Robertson was put on the back-burner and once again saw only limited playing time. Once again, he struggled when he was on the field. Robertson allowed 13 of his 17 targets and his overall grade per PFF was 37.2 to close the season.
It doesn’t seem likely Robertson will be in the team’s future plans as there isn’t much need for what he was intended to supply now with the nickel spot locked up.
Like Simpson, he may be a guy who seemed like a good pick at the time so you can’t say the pick was necessarily all bad, but with that logic pretty much every GM could be excused from making bad picks as long as they were “safe.” If a “safe” pick doesn’t work out, it is still on the GM as there are always other players you can compare picked later that produced better.
- 2020 Performance Grade: D
- 2021 Performance Grade: F
- Pick Grade: D