Adam Schefter Offers Latest Assessment on Maxx Crosby and the Raiders

Maxx Crosby is back with the Raiders and every indication from Crosby and the decision makers in Las Vegas are that the situation between the team and Crosby has changed since the trade fell through with the Ravens.

Crosby has been open about his feelings on the Raiders (and Ravens) in recent days, and among those buying the idea that he won’t be leaving the Raiders anytime soon is ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

“When everybody was saying Maxx Crosby wanted out, I always thought, well, hold on… there’s a new head coach in Klint Kubiak. They’re going to have the number one pick that is expected to be Fernando Mendoza. They got Brock Bowers and Ashton Jeanty. They had, at the time, about $90 million in cap space. And we saw how they spent that money on Tyler Linderbaum and Nakobe Dean and all the players they brought into Vegas,” Schefter said on The Adam Schefter Podcast.

“If you’re Maxx Crosby and you’re the Raider that you say you are, and he is, why do you want to leave that now when the Raiders look like they are putting together some parts that make it more encouraging and give you more optimism than you’ve had about that team than any time in recent memory? So to me, I always felt like, well, shouldn’t somebody sit him down and present everything that’s in the Raiders’ favor?”

“[Maxx] was the one that wanted to move on. He was the one who wanted out. He was the one who was saying, ‘Please trade me,’ and it was going on behind closed doors, too. He wanted out and he got traded and it didn’t work out real well,” Schefter continued.

“Now he’s back. And now if the Raiders are going to go trade him today, I think his value would be 80 cents on the dollar. And the Raiders wouldn’t trade him before, unless they got what they wanted. I think they’re less likely to get what they wanted. There’s fewer teams that have the cap room to make that trade now.”

“All the factors that are out there make it less likely than Maxx Crosby would be traded.
And most important, we have Maxx Crosby professing his love to the Raiders and saying that he wants to be back there. So it’s almost like these two have gone to some chapel in Las Vegas to renew their vows and they’re ready to move forward together. They thought about breaking up.”

As ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler pointed out earlier in the week, there is a good chance teams will circle back to the Raiders ahead of the draft to see if Crosby might be available again. But the biggest difference this time is that Crosby is no longer requesting a trade.

In fact, it sounds like Las Vegas is where Crosby feels like he is supposed to be.

“You know how my mind works. Everything happens for a reason. Truly. And you can’t control that,” Crosby said on The Rush this week.

“Nobody on earth could have predicted that. I don’t think it’s ever happened at that level. So I didn’t know what to say [when I got back to the Raiders building], but I’m like, ‘I’m not letting nobody knock my shine and not make me feel weird at anything. I’m like [this] sh– happens for a reason. I know exactly who I am. I’m healthy. I’m f—ing crushing my rehab. I’m doing what I’m doing,” Crosby continued.

“I wasn’t supposed to be in Baltimore and that’s it. I’m meant to be a Raider. It’s through my **** core and that’s it. You know what I mean? I’ll leave it simple as that. I just feel like storms happen. When you’re in it, you’re thinking, ‘Oh, it’s because of this, this is why it’s happening,’ and this and that. That sh– happen for a whole different reason and it just made everything so much more clear and just cleared the path. It’s just a crazy situation, but it’s just another chapter to the story and I was fired up to get back in the building.”

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