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Jon Gruden 'loved' Kyler Murray, Raiders were never trading for No. 1 pick

Did Raiders head coach Jon Gruden really consider pulling a control-alt-delete on quarterback Derek Carr to take Kyler Murray in the 2019 NFL Draft?

While Gruden admits he "loved" Murray, he told NBC Sports' Peter King that he never planned on picking him.

"That doesn’t mean we were gonna take him" Gruden told King in the writer's latest Football Morning in America. "How do you not love his performance, his playing style, what he accomplished? I had a blast with him [when the Raiders worked him out pre-draft in Dallas]. We didn’t think about going up to number one.