Grading Raiders 2018 free agency: Going with quantity over quality

I keep seeing fans tout free agency as a major success simply by listing all the positions at which the team has added a player. To be clear, that is in not how anyone should deem a free agent class a success.

Adding bodies at various positions is not success. Every team has bodies. Every team fills out a roster. Last year’s 0-16 Browns had a full 90-man roster in the offseason just like everybody else. Quantity does not equal quality.

There is no question the Raiders have the quantity part of this year’s free agency. But do they have the quality? Let’s look at the players they’ve signed so far to see.

TE Derek Carrier

RB Doug Martin

WR Jordy Nelson

WR/KR Griff Whalen

QB Josh Johnson

OT Breno…