The Las Vegas Raiders entered Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season with a handful of key players set to be out due to injury. Kolton Miller recently ended up on the Injured Reserve, Brock Bowers' knee injury is worse than originally thought, and both Michael Mayer and Eric Stokes could not suit up either.
This left the Silver and Black without three of their best starters and, arguably, their best depth piece. Las Vegas had a skeleton crew at tight end, a shaky starter at left tackle and a rookie third-rounder making his first-ever NFL start at cornerback.