{"id":115643,"date":"2024-04-29T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=115643"},"modified":"2024-04-29T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:17:02","slug":"raiders-gm-explains-why-las-vegas-didnt-draft-a-quarterback-nguyensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/raiders-gm-explains-why-las-vegas-didnt-draft-a-quarterback-nguyensa\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders GM explains why Las Vegas didn&#8217;t draft a quarterback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The Las Vegas Raiders were in the market for a quarterback going into the 2024 NFL Draft, but they were unable to pull off a trade in the first round to move up for one and the board didn&#8217;t fall in their favor ahead of the 13th overall pick.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.sportingnews.com\/styles\/crop_style_16_9_desktop\/s3\/2024-04\/gettyimages-1958669984.jpg?h=53439d91&amp;itok=j3BlwgAY\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas looked into moving up in the first round and had a plan in place if the opportunity presented itself. However, nothing materialized for the Raiders, who ended up sticking and picking tight end Brock Bowers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Falcons&#8230; what?<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs got richer. Wolverines littered the ranks of draft picks. And the Raiders&#39; draft is more about what they \ud835\ude59\ud835\ude5e\ud835\ude59\ud835\ude63&#39;\ud835\ude69 do.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByMikeJones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ByMikeJones<\/a> has winners and losers from the 2024 NFL Draft.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lFsPTQL2eN\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/lFsPTQL2eN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hRLaqSWbca\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hRLaqSWbca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1784588561582584189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked into (a trade up in the first round) like I said in the pre-draft press conference,\u201d\u00a0general manager Tom Telesco said.\u00a0\u201cWe kind of had a plan to&#8230; maybe move up if the opportunity was there. It wasn\u2019t there, kept moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Telesco added that the Raiders didn&#8217;t try &#8220;particularly hard&#8221; to make a move, but explored it nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>As the draft went on, it was thought that Las Vegas might take a quarterback on Day 2 or 3. That never came to fruition, either, and Telesco explained why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we felt there was a quarterback out there that was better than what we had or could potentially be better, certainly would&#8217;ve done something about it,&#8221;\u00a0he said\u00a0of not drafting a signal-caller on Day 2 or 3.<\/p>\n<p>After not adding a quarterback over the weekend, the Raiders are now locked into a competition between Gardner Minshew and Aidan O&#8217;Connell. How far either is able to get the Raiders in 2024 remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Raiders were in the market for a quarterback going into the 2024 NFL Draft, but they were unable to pull off a trade in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":115644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115645,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115643\/revisions\/115645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}