We’re getting into the thick of Fernando Mendoza’s 2025 season at Indiana in Silver and Black Pride’s Mendoza Mania series, diving into a film breakdown on the No. 1 pick of the 2026 NFL draft’s sixth game of the year and first of two matchups against the Oregon Ducks.

This contest let the College Football world know that the Hoosiers and Mendoza have arrived, taking down the No. 3 team in the country on the road with a 30-20 victory. The Las Vegas Raiders’ new quarterback had a solid outing overall, completing 20 of 31 passes (64.5 percent) for 215...

We’re in the slow news period, but we did get the Las Vegas Raiders’ training camp dates this week. Rookies will report to camp on July 23, while the veterans join them in Las Vegas five days later on the 28th, meaning we’re about a month away from camp getting started! Besides that and the Brendan Sorsby saga, there isn’t a whole lot of news going on across the entire NFL. But if you have questions, I have answers for this week’s mailbag.

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

Mike McCoy has been here before.

In his first season as the Las Vegas Raiders’ assistant head coach and an offensive coach, McCoy is part of the group working with No.1 overall draft pick, quarterback Fernando Mendoza. This is the third time this decade he has worked with a young quarterback who was the No. 1 overall pick. He was Trevor Lawrence’s quarterbacks coach starting in his second season and he was with Cam Ward last season in his rookie season as a Tennessee Titans’ senior offensive assistant and then interim head coach.

So, this is not an adjustment as...

The Las Vegas Raiders had a deal to send Maxx Crosby to the Baltimore Ravens for two first-round picks. When that deal fell through after Crosby did not pass a physical, the trade rumors were supposed to be left behind.

Recently, the rumors have started to heat up again, with reports that the San Francisco 49ers could become an option. Since the Raiders are in a full rebuild, talk about what will happen to Crosby will continue until the trade deadline.

In this week’s SB Nation Reacts, we ask Raider Nation if Maxx Crosby has the possibility of being traded....

Derek Carr is very likely the most polarizing player ever to wear the Silver and Black in the history of the now Las Vegas Raiders’ franchise.

To this day, more than three years since he last played for the Raiders, fans are still split on the quarterback who started for the team for nine seasons.

No matter where you stood on Carr, it’s difficult to deny he did some good things as a Raider. A recent X post by NFL researcher showed that Carr delivered in some tough situations caused by a lack of help from the defensive side of...

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Raiders redundancy is apt at the quarterback position.

No, I’m not referring to having super veteran Kirk Cousins, No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza, and another vet Aidan O’Connell as the top trio in the quarterback room. That’s quite important, don’t get me wrong.

It’s having Klint Kubiak as the head coach and primary offensive play caller and his trusted “fixer” Andrew Janocko as his offensive coordinator. Both served as as quarterback coaches in their respective careers and the initial thought was the experience shared between them both, a true QB coach wasn’t necessarily required.

Enter: Mike Sullivan.

The veteran...

The Las Vegas Raiders are going into their seventh season since leaving Oakland, making the 2020 NFL draft class the franchise’s first in its new city. That also means all seven players selected in Vegas’ inaugural draft are or at least have had enough time to be well-established veterans in the league.

So, let’s check in on the seven players drafted six years ago and see where they are now. Spoiler alert: five of them are no longer in the league.

Round 1, Pick 12: WR Henry Ruggs III

Raiders Stats: 20 games, 50 catches, 921 yards, 4 TDs...

While the Maxx Crosby trade rumors won’t go away, it seems like many Las Vegas Raiders fans wish they would.

The speculation surrrounding the star defensive end continue even after the March agreed upon trade of Crosby at the Baltimore Ravens was nixed by the Ravens, the Crosby trade speculation hasn’t dead. In fact, it has recently ramped up.

Recently, reporter Vinny Bonsignore, who has covered the Raiders closely, proposed that the San Francisco 49ers should trade for Crosby as a response to their NFC West rival, the Los Angeles Rams recently acquiring star pass-rusher Myles Garrett from the Cleveland...

One of the most noteworthy developments in the Las Vegas Raiders’ recent mandatory minicamp was that fifth-round pick Hezekiah “Zeke” Masses worked some with the first-team defense in both days of the camp.

He rotated with 2025 third-round pick, Darien Porter, both days. At his end-of-the-offseason press conference, Raiders’ head coach Klint Kubiak noted that Masses, a Cal product, worked well in the offseason and he must continue it when the pads come on in training camp.

Thus, it looks like, Masses, at least, has a chance to become a starter this season. I don’t think many people anticipated that...

No one needs to hear about about the reality of inflation in recent years.

It’s everywhere, including in the NFL.

However, inflation has hit fans of the Las Vegas Raiders at a much bigger rate than the normal increase in the NFL. According to a recent study on Casino.guru, over the past decade the cost of a Raiders’ home game experience has skyrocketed 282 percent, trailing only the game-day experience of going to a Detroit Lions; game, which has risen a whopping 367 percent since 2016. The formula includes the price of a game ticket, one beer and one hot...

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