In a year that has been as painful to sit through as any post-2006 campaign, one of the biggest reasons that the Las Vegas Raiders may end up with the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft has been the thoroughly below-average play of quarterback Geno Smith.
Any hope that Smith was going to live up to his big contract has been all but extinguished, and the Raiders clearly need a young quarterback of the future. Ideally, they find that prize signal-caller in next April's draft.
Las Vegas will likely be making calls and looking for ways to offload the struggling veteran onto some other team.