Quarterback is the obvious glaring need for the Raiders as they are weeks away from the 2025 offseason. Though, to be fair, this will be the third straight offseason they will enter in which that is the case. Only this time they find themselves in a position to get one in the draft.
The first time that was the case, Tom Brady was a hot topic of conversation as the replacement for Derek Carr who was cut after the team failed to find a trade partner.
As it happens, Brady joined the Raiders this offseason as a minority owner. And now with the team appearing headed for a position at or near the top of the 2025 draft, Mark Davis has told The Athletic’s Tashan Reed that he will be tapping Brady’s expertise about what direction they will go in landing a new franchise signal caller.
“You’d have to talk to Tom Telesco,” Davis said when I asked if he has a preference in the first round of the draft. “And, of course, Tom Brady at some point will have something to say in that.” https://t.co/oqnKUgBedM
— Tashan Reed (@tashanreed) December 11, 2024
If the Raiders continue down the path they are currently on — that being a losing streak that has reached nine games — they could have any QB in this draft they want. Which would end up making it, basically a decision between Colorado’s Shadeur Sanders or Miami’s Cam Ward.
As of now, the Raiders are neck and neck with the New York Giants for the rights to the top pick in the draft. Should the Giants get the top pick and the Raiders finish just behind them, the decision as to whom they get could be out of their hands for the most part.
Brady input in this matter could be pretty valuable in assisting GM Tom Telesco in this matter.
Just so long as Telesco is allower to overrule Brady should he think the Raiders could afford to wait for a sleeper pick in the sixth round just as the Patriots did when they landed him in the 2000 draft.
