The Las Vegas Raiders have utterly failed during the 2025 NFL season. Pete Carroll has been a disaster as the team's fifth head coach in as many seasons. Things won't be any easier in the final stretch of the season with a tough schedule on the docket. Raider Nation gets it.
But there is still a way to salvage something from this embarrassing campaign and not risk the team's currently very high draft position. For the final quarter of the schedule, the Raiders should be completely, solely, unabashedly focused on playing their young players.
Ashton Jeanty has gotten plenty of run this season, and a handful of other rookies and young players have stepped up to play big roles more recently, mostly thanks to a handful of key injuries.