Silver And Black Pride
Third-round pick was a stalwart left tackle at William & Mary and a viable option if Las Vegas can’t extend veteran
With elite punter AJ Cole III landing a contract extension, the natural question became: When are the Las Vegas Raiders going to lock up left tackle Kolton Miller long term?
The Silver & Black’s stalwart left tackle rebounded nicely in 2024 starting in all 17 game for Las Vegas and notching 1,075 snaps (96 percent of the Raiders offensive total). This after the 29-year-old was limited to a career-low 13 games in 2023 — a year where a shoulder injury shelved him to just 11 starts.
Since being drafted by the Raiders with the 15th overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft — a selection that was met with ridicule at the time — Miller blossomed into a reliable blindside protector that brings both prototypical size — 6-foot-8 and 325 pounds — and movement skills to the left tackle position.
The Roseville, Calif. native heads into the 2025 campaign — the inaugural season with Pete Carroll and John Spytek as the Raiders head coach and general manger, respectively — on the final leg of a three-year, $54 million extension inked back in 2021. Reports surfaced that Miller was unhappy with the lame duck scenario of his current deal and he was absent from voluntary work outs. He’s since showed up to mandatory offseason activities, though. But, Spytek shut down any further queries on Miller’s long-term standing with the team during the left tackle’s absence.
“I’m just gonna give you our answer and it’s gonna be this going forward. We’re not gonna discuss contracts publicly and this is certainly a voluntary part of the offseason program,” Spytek noted. “Guys are free to come and go as they please.”
Miller is slated to earn slightly over $15.68 million this season and then hits unrestricted free agency next offseason — sans a new contract in Las Vegas. None of that is guaranteed — he played last season without any guaranteed coin either, though.
Thus, there’s two scenarios as the Raiders are at a proverbial fork in the road with their left tackle:
Which brings us to this question: How does drafting Charles Grant affect Miller’s long-term future?
Plucked from the 2025 NFL Draft class with the 99th pick in the third round, Grant was a small school standout at William & Mary.
Grant played in 36 career games for the Tribe (2,292 snaps) and was charted with: Three sacks allowed, three quarterback hits allowed, and 22 pressures allowed. Two of the career sacks he yielded at William & Mary came in 2024 (where he logged 767 snaps in 12 games).
Measuring in at 6-foot-5 and 311 pounds at the NFL Combine, Grant arrives to the NFL with an engulfing 34 3⁄4 inch arms and an 84 inch wing span which is seven...
