The Las Vegas Raiders are clearly starved for a quarterback. The Geno Smith experiment has all but failed through seven games of the 2025 NFL season, and neither Kenny Pickett nor Aidan O'Connell is a viable option, as both are likely to be career backups.
With a 2026 college quarterback class that is getting mixed reviews, at best, the Raiders may not find their future signal-caller next April. Plus, there is no guarantee that Las Vegas would be in a position to select a player of the caliber of Indiana's Fernando Mendoza or Alabama's Ty Simpson anyway.
Although Raider Nation is largely in the camp of the team simply selecting a quarterback in the draft -- something they haven't done since 2007, when they took JaMarcus Russell with the No.