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Levi Damien

What Condition the Position is in: Assessing Raiders level of need at IOL ahead of free agency

With free agency under a month away, it’s time to check in on the Raiders’ interior offensive line position to give it a condition of either Strong, Stable, Unstable, Serious, or Critical.

Returning starters: Dylan Parham, ?, ?
Depth: Jordan Meredith, Ben Brown
Free Agents: Andre James, Greg Van Roten, Hroniss Grasu

All this season the trio in the middle was LG Dylan Parham, C Andre James, and RG Greg Van Roten. With some less than stellar results.

Condition: Critical

The only interior starter from last season still under contract next season is Parham. He could stay at left guard or move to center. What their plans are for him could decide whether they bring back James or not.

Either way, they need to sign two interior linemen. That means either re-signing James and adding a guard or moving Parham to center and adding two guards. There is no way around addressing the interior line this offseason.

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