The Raiders tried to rebuild their defensive line this offseason, bringing in Chandler Jones and Bilal Nichols. They also retained Johnathan Hankins and signed a few other veterans, including Vernon Butler and Kyle Peko.
However, the interior defensive line for the Raiders is a position that is in desperate need of young talent. They might have the oldest interior defensive line in the NFL and don’t really have any other players coming up through the pipeline to replace them.
In a recent article by Jordan Reid and Matt Miller of ESPN, they took a look at every team’s biggest need going into the draft later this month. Here is what they had to say about the Raiders and where they could go on Day 2 and Day 3 of the 2022 NFL Draft: