Calling each Las Vegas Raiders rookies Thursday to the Intermountain Health Performance Center.
It’s clip for grooming camp.
Though the Raiders won’t signifier successful afloat until adjacent Thursday, rookies are owed to study and acclimate earlier their seasoned teammates get adjacent Wednesday. All their draftees inked their deals prevention for apical wide prime Fernando Mendoza, soon, presumably, to motion his contract.
Here are trends to way for their 10 draught picks:
First-team reps for Mendoza: Kirk Cousins didn’t get $20 cardinal guaranteed from the Raiders to backmost up their aboriginal franchise quarterback, handling astir of their first-team reps and positioned to beryllium their Week 1 starter. But the No. 1 wide prime figures to get the occasional first-team look successful practice.
How helium plays with — and leads — that portion could expedite his propulsion for playing clip if Cousins struggles.
Treydan Stukes’ versatility: The second-rounder from Arizona is an all-around antiaircraft back, bringing to Las Vegas perimeter acquisition with know-how arsenic a nickel and a consciousness for playing safety. The Raiders drafted Stukes arsenic information but could deploy him astatine nickel arsenic well. He repped this outpouring crossed the secondary and should log a precocious drawback number this season, careless of position.
Keyron Crawford’s relation successful the rotation: Maxx Crosby and Kwity Paye bookend what figures to beryllium a formidable walk rush, leaving the third-round rookie rusher a reserve. But there’s nary specified happening arsenic excessively overmuch extent for a antiaircraft beforehand and Crawford figures to vie for reps arsenic rotational walk rusher amid his development.
Inside oregon extracurricular for Trey Zuhn III: Zuhn played halfway astatine Texas A&M successful 2025 aft 3 years astatine near tackle, landing arsenic a third-round prime with the Raiders, for whom helium was drafted arsenic a guard. But helium repped immoderate astatine close tackle successful the offseason programme and could vie with DJ Glaze.
At defender he’d vie with Caleb Rogers, Jackson Powers-Johnson and Spencer Burford.
Reps, bushed and wellness for Jermod McCoy: The Raiders fig to negociate McCoy and the semipermanent wellness of his rickety close knee, already sidelining him past period for mandatory minicamp. A first-round endowment turned fourth-round pick, he’s owed to rep astatine cornerback — astatine which lone Eric Stokes has solidified himself a starter — and would bolster an unproven secondary if his wellness remains intact.
Mike Washington Jr.’s workload oregon deficiency thereof: Second-year moving backmost Ashton Jeanty is owed for an uptick successful usage this play with Washington drafted to spot and spell him. With Jeanty successful enactment for the featured relation — and keeping him caller for the autumn a probable precedence — the fourth-round prime should spot plentifulness of reps with the archetypal and 2nd teams alike.
Dalton Johnson, information and peculiar teamer: The fifth-round prime doesn’t person a wide pathway to commencement astatine information with incumbent starters Jeremy Chinn and Isaiah Pola-Mao returning — positive the drafting of Stukes. It’s imaginable helium champion makes an interaction connected peculiar teams portion serving arsenic a rotational safety.
Hezekiah Masses’ perimeter push: Masses was a fifth-round prime but a first-team country during minicamp, competing for reps connected the perimeter. Perhaps helium — on with McCoy — pushes second-year cornerback Darien Porter for much first-team reps this fall.
Malik Benson … the returner: A sixth-round draftee arsenic a wide receiver apt to make arsenic helium serves arsenic depth, Benson could vie to play punt returner. The speedster fielded 9 punts past play (with Oregon), returning 1 85 yards for a touchdown.
Brandon Cleveland’s developmental depth: A seventh-round enactment astatine antiaircraft tackle, Cleveland would person to thrive astatine campy to bushed retired vets astatine a presumption of depth.
That’s the constituent of practice, though.
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