Would the Raiders be the perfect fit for Shedeur Sanders?
ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky thinks so, and this week he explained why the University of Colorado quarterback should be hoping he falls to the no. 6 pick in the draft.
“Easiest decision of the draft and, by far, the perfect situation for Shedeur Sanders. I do think there’s some young talent in Las Vegas [with] Brock Bowers being the premier kind of mainstay. I love the fact that he [would be] with Pete Carroll because you know that defensively they’re going to force him to score 35 or 40 a game,” Orlovsky said on ESPN’s NFL Live.
“I also love the fact that their new offensive coordinator Chip Kelly the collegiate ties, so the new age offense and some of the stuff that Shedeur is comfortable, with also understanding how the NFL game works. If you were Shedeur Sanders, you would take [the Raiders] in a heartbeat. It would be perfect for him.”
It’s difficult to project where Sanders is going to be drafted because he doesn’t necessarily have the skill set of quarterbacks that have been drafted in the top 10 in recent years, but he is arguably the best quarterback in this year’s class.
Most draft pundits expect Cam Ward to be the first quarterback taken in the draft, but no one is putting him or Sanders in the same category as Caleb Williams or Jayden Daniels.
With the sixth pick in the draft, the Raiders aren’t necessarily in a great spot to get one of the top two quarterbacks, but local beat writer Vinny Bonsignore thinks the stars are beginning to line up for Shedeur Sanders to ultimately end up in Las Vegas.
In an article this week, Bonsignore projected Sanders to get past the quarterback-needy teams ahead of the Raiders in the draft and fall to the Raiders with the sixth pick.
“This scenario seemed unlikely one month ago. But with Miami’s Cam Ward now being viewed as the top quarterback prospect and teams at the top of the draft favoring the perceived certainty of more instant-impact prospects, Sanders falls right into the Raiders’ lap at No. 6. They sit tight and get their franchise quarterback without having to mortgage their future,” Bonsignore wrote in his Las Vegas Review-Journal mock draft this week.
Bonsignore followed up on his draft projection in a segment on the team’s flagship radio station.
“I have a feeling that this might be the Raiders fortunate draft; [their] lucky day where you don’t have to trade up and you don’t have to mortgage your future,” Bonsignore said on Raider Nation Radio’s Morning Tailgate on Monday.
“The way things are kind of lining up with some dominant players at the top of the draft this year, the generational players that the Tennessee Titans new general manager doesn’t want to pass up on,” Bonsignore continued. “I think there’s an actual chance that Shedeur Sanders is going to drop to no. 6 and the Raiders are going to stand pat and wait for Shedeur Sanders, the great young quarterback from the University of Colorado to fall to them.”
If we’ve learned anything about the Raiders in the offseason, it’s that Tom Brady wants to bring people in the building that he is familiar with.
If that’s the position he takes with the quarterback position, as well, Sanders will probably be the top quarterback prospect on the Raiders’ draft board.
x: @raidersbeat
Pass on Sanders. We would turn into a circus and who wants to deal with Deion?
Nah we definitely want Shedeur. He’s been a winner at every level since Middle school. And Deion is always welcome
Really don’t want him, too many holes on the roster. go free agent for QB would rather use that first round pick on RB Ashton Jeanty