{"id":115679,"date":"2024-04-30T02:53:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=115679"},"modified":"2024-04-30T02:54:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:54:07","slug":"mel-kiper-surprised-raiders-drafted-brock-bowers-instead-of-dallas-turner-nguyensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/mel-kiper-surprised-raiders-drafted-brock-bowers-instead-of-dallas-turner-nguyensa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Kiper \u2018surprised\u2019 Raiders drafted Brock Bowers instead of Dallas Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Kiper is \u201csurprised\u201d the Las Vegas Raiders did not select\u00a0Dallas Turner\u00a0with their first-round pick and chose\u00a0Brock Bowers\u00a0at No. 13 overall.\u00a0On ESPN\u2019s First Draft, Kiper explained why the Raiders should have gone with Turner instead of the former Georgia Bulldogs tight end.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ybmedia\/image\/upload\/c_crop,h_630,w_1120,x_40,y_0\/c_fill,f_auto,h_900,q_auto,w_1600\/v1\/m\/b\/e\/be480233ccc76bb57ad5ac30587bf8ac6401c65f\/Brock-Bowers-Dallas-Turner.jpg\" alt=\"Mel Kiper \u2018surprised\u2019 Raiders drafted Brock Bowers instead of Dallas Turner\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Brock Bowers. I was a little surprised that they didn\u2019t take Dallas Turner,\u201d Kiper said. \u201cDallas Turner slipped through the cracks. Dallas Turner\u2019s grade was right there with Brock Bowers. I had Brock Bowers at seven, Dallas Turner at nine, but they had the same grade on the big board. I gave Brock a slight edge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought they could have gone pass rusher there, Kiper added. \u201cThey have\u00a0[Michael] Mayer\u00a0who showed promise. Brock Bowers not getting a Dallas Turner. They really didn\u2019t get anybody off the edge for the rest of that draft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the 2023 season, the Raiders finished 46 sacks which is right in the middle of the pack when it comes to the all NFL teams. The team has a premiere pass rusher in\u00a0Maxx Crosby\u00a0who recorded 14.5 sacks and 31 QB hits last season. Turner, who played college football at\u00a0Alabama, was considered one of the top pass rushers in the draft and was selected by the Minnesota Vikings at No. 17.<\/p>\n<h2>Brock Bowers was \u2018shocked\u2019 to be drafted by Raiders<\/h2>\n<p>Bowers had a stellar career at\u00a0Georgia, winning two national championships and the John Mackey Award twice. During his introductory press conference, Bowers told reporters that he didn\u2019t believe the Raiders would draft him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked,\u201d Bowers said, per the\u00a0Raiders\u2019 official website. \u201cI wasn\u2019t really totally sure what was happening, but when that call came up and it said Las Vegas, Nevada, I was juiced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowers also talked about playing multiple positions when he was at Georgia. \u201cI feel like I can be used in a multitude of ways,\u201d Bowers said. \u201cAt Georgia, I was moved all around. They put me in the backfield sometimes, tight end, slot, outside receiver. So, I feel like versatility is a big part of my game and I\u2019m just excited to see what\u2019s in store for this next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowers will join a Raiders team that finished with an 8-9 record last year. In January, the team hired\u00a0Antonio Pierce\u00a0as its head coach after going 5-4 as the interim head coach in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Kiper is \u201csurprised\u201d the Las Vegas Raiders did not select\u00a0Dallas Turner\u00a0with their first-round pick and chose\u00a0Brock Bowers\u00a0at No. 13 overall.\u00a0On ESPN\u2019s First Draft, Kiper explained why&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":115680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115679","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\/115679","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=115679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115681,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115679\/revisions\/115681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}