Veterans like Justin Simmons, Mike Hilton, Quinton Jefferson can fill needs, bolster Silver & Black defense

We’ve rounded the corner past June we’re about three weeks out from the kickoff to Las Vegas Raiders training camp.

It’s an integral offseason in the augural year with general manager John Spytek and head coach Pete Carroll at the helm and when rookies kick off camp July 17, the hard work and grind the Silver & Black are engaging in with eyes of competing and not floundering in 2025 recommences.

The veterans follow their neophyte counterparts on July 22 and we’ll find out...

Some strong options for a niché position

Fullback has become a niché position in the modern NFL, but the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders have had a few good ones in the last 25 years with Marcel Reece, Zack Crockett and Alec Ingold all deserving some recognition.

So, the Raiders' 2000s All-Quarter Century Team wouldn’t be complete without a lead blocker coming out of the backfield and a 12 personnel unit. For clarity, this means we’ll only have two wide receiver spots on the team to keep the offense to just 11 players.

Zack Crockett

Raiders Stats: 1,664 total yards from...

76% of Raider Nation believes Las Vegas Raiders QB Geno Smith will throw for 4000 yards

The Las Vegas Raiders attacked the quarterback position right away by trading for Geno Smith. Smith has been the quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks for the last three seasons, after serving as a journeyman backup. He revitalized his career, making a Pro Bowl and having two 4000-yard seasons in Seattle.

Now he comes to a young offense deploying a star tight end in Brock Bowers and an underrated receiver in Jakobi Meyers. With speed on the outside, Dont’e Thornton and Tre Tucker give the...

Early returns on Brady’s ownership role are positive

It didn’t take long for longtime franchise adversary Tom Brady to start to to become a favorite of Las Vegas Raiders fans.

Brady, of course, became a minority owner of the Raiders late last year. While he isn’t always around the team, Brady, as recently explained by new Las Vegas head coach Pete Carroll, does have a role with the team and he often consults with Carroll about team matters.

We asked our community members how they felt the current working relationship Brady as with the team is working. A whopping 84...

Safety is one of better defensive backs still available

The Las Vegas Raiders have had big change in their secondary this offseason and there has been a lot of talk and speculation that they may added to the back of the defense at some point before the season.

Yes, much of the attention has been focused at the cornerback position where the Raiders are pretty young.

But there has also be some change at safety as free-agent addition Jeremy Chinn and the young Isaiah Palo Mao, who finish last season as the starter. They are replacing Tre’von Moehrig and Marcus...

Website puts Patrick Graham’s unit in bottom half of NFL

Is the Las Vegas Raiders’ defense going to be better than their offense in 2025?

I think most observers and fans of the team would say that may be unlikely because of all of the additions the new regime has made on offense and all the change on defense.

Yet, Pro Football Network thinks that may be the case. The website ranked the Raiders’ offense as the 29th best offense in the NFL as we head to training camp. Now, the defense has been ranked 21st in the NFL.

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Veteran adds much-needed depth and experience but Las Vegas long-term planning at position group needs focus

Sometimes, football fate meets football reality.

Such is the case for Germaine Pratt and the Las Vegas Raiders.

When the veteran linebacker found himself cast aside by the Cincinnati Bengals — the team that drafted him in the third round (72nd overall) of the 2019 NFL Draft — the proclamations the Silver & Black sign a much-needed defender to bolster a position of need arrived faster and with more determination than Bo Jackson when he took the handoff against the Seattle Seahawks back in...

Fielding Raider Nation’s questions for the week

With the Fourth of July coming on Friday, we’re moving this week’s call for mailbag questions up by a day, so that I can spend the holiday with my family. Also, this means Al Davis’ birthday is coming up, and we’ve officially hit the start of training camp month as the Las Vegas Raiders will report to camp in just a few weeks. So, let’s get some 2025 season-preview questions going this week!

As always, anything Raiders-related is on the table and fire away with anything that’s on your mind. Send your questions...

All the latest NFL news and rumors

We’re into the seventh month of the Las Vegas Raiders’ 2025 offseason after a 2024 season which didn’t go as hoped and the team is looking toward the future with training camp finally beginning this month. We’re collecting all the news, injury reports, signings, rumors, and everything you need to follow the Raiders and the NFL in the month of July.

We’ll update everything below in reverse chronological order:

July 2

1:09 p.m.: Maxx Crosby’s i credible commitment to his craft is explained by NFL analyst Brian Baldinger on Chris Long’s podcast.

How does Las Vegas’ young group stack up to the rest of the division?

We’re wrapping up the offensive position groups in Silver and Black Pride’s AFC West positional rankings by taking a look at the trenches. Heading into the 2025 season, the Las Vegas Raiders’ offensive line is a young group overall that has a few question marks. But that seems to be a theme within the division, so how does the Raiders’ unit stack up?

All projected starters below are based on the depth charts on OurLads.com.

1. Los Angeles Chargers

*Projected Starters: Rashawn Slater (LT), Bradley...

Jackson Powers-Johnson has a new mentor and we’re here for it

A relationship is blossoming this offseason in Las Vegas and it’s pretty dang cool.

Jackson Powers-Johnson and Maxx Crosby are becoming extremely close and it should have a subtle, but important positive impact on the team as a whole.

As he entered the offseason after his rookie year, Jackson-Powers, the Raiders’ starting center, gravitated to Crosby, the team’s superstar pass-rusher. Powers-Johnson worked out with the veteran routinely during the offseason.

It’s all part of the process of becoming a well-rounded NFL player for Powers-Johnson.

“I think it starts...