Exhibiting the requisite drive and demeanor, University of Oregon product has look of a long-time effective starter

Jackson Powers-Johnson wearing Silver & Black just makes way too much sense.

From a philosophical and schematic standpoint, the University of Oregon offensive linemen epitomizes exactly what the Las Vegas Raiders want: Domineering, effective, and mean.

Head coach Antonio Pierce wants his desert marauders to have ill intent and be violent, traits that Powers-Johnson exhibits on seemingly an exponential level.

So when the Raiders made him not only the No. 44 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft but the first Duck drafted...

Raiders fans believe O’Connell will win the QB battle

The Las Vegas Raiders are getting ready for the season, with OTAs and Mini-camp coming up in the next month. While there will be other camp battles at different positions, the main one fans will be watching is between Aidan O’Connell and Gardner Minshew.

Minshew signed a deal that made him one of the highest-paid backups in the NFL. Many feel it was starter money, but a $12 million season is a lot less than the deal Jared Goff signed with the Detroit Lions. Antonio Pierce said it is Aidan O’Connell’s...

What games are the players looking forward to most?

The NFL released the 2024 schedule on Wednesday, creating more excitement for the start of the regular season. Everyone now can start circling dates on their calendars and figure out which games they’re going to and looking forward to most. Coincidentally, the Las Vegas Raiders players are doing something similar.

The Raiders recently posted a video on social media, asking players which games they have circled on the schedule. Some gave generic answers like all of them, the ones against the division or the season opener. Others provided more specific answers...

The Denver Broncos quarterback competition officially kicks off this week with the start of OTAs. What are the key storylines to follow?

Denver Broncos QB competition begins this week

Since Spring, Broncos head coach Sean Payton and general manager George Paton have stood firm on the notion that there will be competition at the quarterback position this summer.

Jarrett Stidham was the previous holdover from last year and was the first name thrown into the mix. Days before the NFL Draft, the team traded for Zach Wilson to add another name to the room.

Then, in the NFL Draft,...

The Broncos are favored against the Las Vegas Raiders and Carolina Panthers for the 2024 season.

Good morning, Broncos Country!

The oddsmakers don’t think highly of the Denver Broncos in 2024.

With the 2024 regular season schedule released, DraftKings Sportsbook has the lines for all 17 games. And the Broncos are favored in only two games.

Denver is a -1-point home favorite against the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 5 and a -2.5-point home favorite against the Carolina Panthers in Week 8.

The largest line against the Broncos is a +10.5-point road underdog to the Baltimore Ravens in Week...

Unsettled depth at safety and special teams gives seventh-round pick opportunity to seize role

The Las Vegas Raiders added one Jim Thorpe Award winner — given to the best defensive back in college football — with the 43rd overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft by selecting Tre’von Moehrig. The Silver & Black added yet another by snaring Trey Taylor with the 223rd overall pick in this year’s rendition of the draft.

Like his higher drafted fellow Thorpe winner, Taylor was left college as a productive safety that created takeaways in coverage and was a disruptive as a run defender...

As a starter in Kansas City, Smith finally found his way — but in San Francisco, things didn’t go well.

During a “Dwight Clark Legacy Series” event — a charity event benefitting The Golden Heart Fund of San Francisco — former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith appeared on a panel with three other quarterbacks who have also been associated with the San Francisco 49ers: Brock Purdy, Jeff Garcia and Steve Young.

Smith spoke about the unique situation in which he found himself the 49ers had selected him out of Utah with the first overall pick of the 2005 [NFL...

Returning Raider Nation’s questions for the week

The NFL schedule is out and OTAs are just around the corner for the Las Vegas Raiders. We also have a few hypothetical questions for this week’s mailbag but before we get into that, I just wanted to say thank you all for your kind messages about my grandfather. Whether it was in the comments section here or replies to my post on X/Twitter, I really appreciate the support and that speaks to the community that is Raider Nation! That meant a lot to me.

Anyway, let’s get to it.

Answer: I honestly...

NFL will allow Tom Brady to call games while working on ownership deal

Las Vegas Raiders fans are not fond of seven-time champion quarterback Tom Brady. One of the most controversial plays in NFL history sparked his career against the Raiders in the 2001 divisional round.

Mark Davis didn’t take the tuck rule personally and befriended Brady when he moved the team to Las Vegas. This led to Brady and Davis agreeing to add him as a minority owner with the Raiders in 2023.

There have been issues making it official, and one of the holdups is Brady working for...

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Salary cap space

All information shown is current as of 8:44 a.m. on Saturday, May 18

Current space: $15.2 million.

This includes the estimated salary cap impacts of all known signings and releases. More information about our cap space calculation is available below the tables.

Please note: Between the beginning of the new league year in mid-March and the end of each season, all NFL teams must *remain below the salary cap. If our estimate of the team’s cap space is a negative number, it is either...

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Chiefs hit with bizarre scheduling quirk the NFL hasn’t seen in 97 years, plus 15 other 2024 schedule oddities | CBS Sport

Here are 16 of the weirdest quirks on the 2024 NFL schedule, starting with the Chiefs, who got a quirk that the NFL hasn’t seen in 97 years.

Chiefs will be playing on six different days of the week. The Chiefs got a schedule that no team has gotten in 97 years. With the Chiefs getting a Friday game and Wednesday game thanks to Black Friday...

An analysis of rest edge on a team-by-team basis on the schedule shows the Denver Broncos were one of the teams hurt the most by how the games were scheduled.

A very interesting analysis on rest edge from Sharp Football Analysis this week shows how teams are either hurt or helped by the NFL schedule makers based on various metrics of rest a team can get on a given week. Overall, the Denver Broncos were absolutely dunked on by this 2024 schedule to the point where only one team — the San Francisco 49ers — were impacted in worse ways....