The Las Vegas Raiders can't bargain a triumph successful 2024, arsenic the squad suffered a heartbreaking 19-17 nonaccomplishment to the Kansas City Chiefs successful Week 13. Antonio Pierce's squad competed with 1 of the NFL's champion teams for astir of the game, but a dropped drawback by backmost Aidan O'Connell successful the waning seconds of the contention ended the Raiders' imaginable game-winning thrust and handed Las Vegas their eighth consecutive nonaccomplishment and dropped their grounds to 2-10.
With the decision against the Chiefs, the Raiders have been eliminated from playoff contention. Las Vegas hasn't won a playoff crippled since the 2002 AFC Championship crippled and has qualified for the postseason conscionable 2 times successful the past 22 seasons.
Though Raiders fans don't person overmuch to cheer astir successful 2024, the franchise's draught positioning volition beryllium the superior absorption successful the last 5 games of the campaign. According to Tankathon, Las Vegas presently holds the No.2 wide prime successful the 2025 NFL Draft. The New York Giants, who are besides 2-10 and suffered a Week 13 nonaccomplishment to the Dallas Cowboys connected Thanksgiving, ain the No.1 wide pick.
There volition beryllium a plethora of talented prospects disposable erstwhile the Raiders are connected the timepiece successful April, but Colorado backmost Shedeur Sanders seems similar the evident prime for Las Vegas. Sanders has been 1 of the astir close quarterbacks successful assemblage shot implicit the past 2 years and is the astir pro-ready awesome caller successful this year's draught class.
Additionally, the 22-year-old has already been seen having a speech with Raiders proprietor Mark Davis astatine a Las Vegas Aces crippled connected Oct.4. Sanders besides has a beardown narration with Raiders number proprietor and Hall of Fame backmost Tom Brady, arsenic the Colorado signal-caller has a NIL woody with Brady's covering marque TB12 and has besides trained with the seven-time Super Bowl champion.
— Vegas Sports Today (@VegasSportsTD) October 5, 2024Mark Davis besides stated during a property league aft Brady joined the ownership radical that the five-time Super Bowl MVP volition assistance the Raiders prime a backmost successful the future.
.@Raiders proprietor Mark Davis: "We traded Davante Adams for Tom Brady.” (He was joking of course)
Then added: “Although Tom can't play, helium tin assistance america prime a QB successful the future."
Though determination is nary authoritative study that the Raiders are funny successful Sanders, the 2024 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award victor should beryllium adjacent the apical of the franchise's draught board, and boasting the No.2 wide prime is simply a fantastic measurement toward bringing Shedeur Sanders to Las Vegas.
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