The Raiders made a strong push for Matthew Stafford, but ultimately their offer to the Rams wasn’t enough to get a deal done.
More than one report has indicated the Rams would have traded Stafford for a first-round pick and it sounded last week like the Raiders weren’t even offering a second-round pick.
“The Raiders were not going to give up the No. 6 pick, league sources said, but a second-round pick may have done it once the Rams knew Stafford wanted out,” The Athletic’s Vic Tafur and Tashan Reed reported on Friday.
On Monday, Raider Nation Radio host Q Myers essentially confirmed Tafur’s report on the trade terms.
“I was told they were asking for a [first-round pick]. The Raiders said ‘No.’ I was told that they were asking for a [second-round pick]. The Raiders said ‘No,” Myers said on the Locked On Raiders Podcast.
“I think they were more in line with the third-round pick that they got for Davante Adams and maybe one next year, as well, and the Rams said ‘no,’ they were better off with Matt Stafford than without him.”
It’s irrelevant to anyone in Las Vegas, but it does sounds like the Rams aren’t as sold on Stafford as he might like them to be. He was clearly a player they were willing to part ways with and somehow, he managed to let them off the hook in terms of what they are paying him. At least that’s what it looks like from the outside.
That might have been what Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter was talking about with this clip.
Looking ahead, there has been a lot of speculation about where Tom Brady and company are going to go for a quarterback now, but ESPN’s Adam Schefter said they will have interest in Justin Fields, Russell Wilson and Sam Darnold.
There are a couple of trade options Carpenter has hinted about on his podcast, but the draft is where the Raiders are likely to take their biggest swing at quarterback.
Cam Ward will most probably be out of reach, but Shedeur Sanders is looking more and more like a player that is going to fall in the draft – maybe even to the bottom of the first round.
It was a rough week for Sanders in Indianapolis and it will be interesting to see where he stands with teams going into the draft. A lot can change between now and the end of April, but as of now it’s looking like Sanders is probably going to be on the board when the Raiders are on the clock at pick six.
If he’s on the board at pick six, would Brady really pass on Sanders as a few recent mock drafts have been predicting?
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