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Just In: Highly skilled NFL prospects Raiders should consider passing on in 2024
The Raiders need to avoid these all-too-familiar temptations in the NFL draft
The Las Vegas Raiders head into the 2024 NFL Draft with plenty of needs all over the field, but quarterback remains the biggest issue. While there may be a temptation to trade up for LSU QB Jayden McDaniels, the Raiders need to avoid doing so this year. Here is why they should pass on this signal-caller as well as two other players at positions of need.
QB Jayden Daniels, LSU
New full-time head coach Antonio Pierce knows Jayden McDaniels well. When the former New York Giants linebacker was the defensive coordinator/assistant head coach for the Arizona State Sun Devils, he recruited Daniels to the school.
McDaniels had to leave ASU for the SEC to have his breakout season, but it seems like Pierce still loves the QB.
The Raiders need a signal-caller in the 2024 NFL Draft. Aidan O’Connell was decent at times last season, but he doesn’t seem like a no-doubt NFL QB1 by any means. Teams in this league are only as good as their starting QBs, and Las Vegas needs one as badly as anyone.
After not taking place in the free agency QB carousel, the Raiders now must take one in the draft. And, in a vacuum, taking Daniels is not a bad play at all with his potential. Sure, he was a one-year wonder in his fifth season and he may weigh under 200 pounds, but he’s still one of the top prospects in this year’s draft.