Up next in Silver and Black Pride’s Mendoza Mania series is the only 300-yard performance from Fernando Mendoza’s final College Football season, as the Indiana Hoosiers took down the Michigan State Spartans 38-13 in Week 8.

Statistically, this was the No. 1 pick of the 2026 NFL draft’s best performance of the season, completing 24 of 28 pass attempts (85.7 percent) for 332 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions. According to Pro Football Focus, one of those incompletions was due to a drop, and he tossed a couple of “big-time” throws to make the outing even more efficient and...

The Las Vegas Raiders signed defensive tackle Gary Smith as an undrafted free agent.

Let’s take a closer look at Smith:

Size:

6-1, 319 pounds.

College:

Duke (2020-21), UCLA (2022-25).

College highlights:

He had 25 career college starts, including all 12 games for the Bruins in 2025 Smith was an honorable mention All Big-Ten selection in 2025 after missing the entire 2024 season due to a preseason injury.

How he will fit in with Raiders:

A lot of scouts like Smith and believe he has upside. He has been considered as one of the Raiders’ most promising undrafted free-agent signings....

There are few people in the NFL world who has been as busy as Klint Kubiak has been this year.

He was part of a Super Bowl-winning ride by the Seattle Seahawks as their offensive coordinator, all the while being a leading head-coaching candidate around the league. Right after the Super Bowl, he flew to Las Vegas to be introduced as the Las Vegas Raiders head coach and immediately jumped into that process. He went though the staff hiring experience, all the while learning his new franchise and going through the NFL offseason process as a head-coach for the first...

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Here’s our 2026 Raiders’ undrafted free agent tracker.

Previously, Silver and Black Pride dove into the Las Vegas Raiders’ first NFL draft class in Las Vegas. Here, we’re taking a look at what ended up being Jon Gruden’s and Mike Mayock’s final draft with the Raiders, the 2021 class. Let’s just say this one falls in line with the other hauls Gruden and Mayock brought in…

Round 1, Pick 17: OL Alex Leatherwood

Raiders Stats: 17 games, 17 starts (1 season)

Post-Raiders Stats: 4 games, 0 starts (1 season)

Current Team: N/A

Gruden and Mayock were known for their first-round reaches, with Leatherwood being one of the...

After previously looking into the wide receivers, we’re onto tight ends in Silver and Black Pride’s AFC West position rankings. The position group has some star power at the top with Brock Bowers on the Las Vegas Raiders’ roster and Travis Kelce on the Kansas City Chiefs’ roster, creating some drama at the top of the rankings. That leaves the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers to fill out the rest of the list, as there’s plenty of room for an up-and-comer to make a name for himself.

All stats referenced below are from the regular season unless otherwise noted....

The 2020 draft, a draft that was bound to be pivotal for the Raiders, holding two first round picks, and three third round picks. Overall, the Raiders 2020 class is arguably one of the worst in the modern era, with only two players (John Simpson, Amik Robertson) still in the NFL to this day and all of their five first/third round selections are out of the NFL completely, with two in prison.

A fun idea I had was a re-draft, but not any re-draft that just picks the best player, I wanted to re-draft the Raiders for 2020 but use...

The Las Vegas Raiders will hold the 1st overall spot for the NFL’s waiver order, a system that allows teams to claim players who have been “waived” by their previous team. A player is waived when they have accrued 4 or less seasons in the NFL. To accrue an NFL season, a player must either have been on the team’s IR, PUP (unless on for a non-football injury), or active roster for 6 more games in a season.

Teams often use the NFL’s initial roster cuts as a good way to continue building depth, add young developing players, or fill...

The Las Vegas Raiders added Tom Brady to the ownership team back in late 2024. While the first year with Brady at the organization didn’t pan out, they were able to grab the first overall pick and draft Fernando Mendoza.

Even with him as a minority owner of the Silver and Black, he has maintained his job in the booth with Fox Sports. It allows the seven-time Super Bowl champion to examine how the NFL game is developing. One issue Brady has with the NFL is the extensive fines for NFL players. On his Stick to Football podcast, he spilled...

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Klint Kubiak is the man charged with steering the Silver & Black ship back to relevance.

Officially hired by the Las Vegas Raiders after an impressive showing as the Super Bowl winning Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator on Feb. 9, the 39-year-old hot shot is at the forefront of a much-desired Raiders renaissance. To get there, Kubiak’s first addition to his coaching staff in Las Vegas was Mike McCoy as assistant head coach, just three days after being anointed the Raiders’ 25th head coach.

I suspect there were plenty of “why hire the failed San Diego Chargers head coach?” sentiment going...

The Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver group has been a big subject this offseason. John Spytek was expected to make plenty of moves to help add more depth and explosiveness on the outside.

It started with the team signing Jalen Nailor from the Minnesota Vikings. The next step was the draft, where they surprised fans and the media by only taking one WR. That WR is Malik Benson Jr out of Oregon, who led the team in receiving yards in 2025.

In a column this week by ESPN’s Ryan McFadden. He gave props to the young wide receiver for his...