The initial opinions and thoughts on Tom Telesco becoming the Las Vegas Raiders general manager are wide and varied. There isn’t a consensus and it goes in extremes in either direction of positive and negative, to even indifferent.
Yet, there’s one constant regarding the Silver & Black’s new chief personnel man: He has a solid eye for talent. And that alone must’ve piqued the Raiders decision-makers’ interest, namely, owner Mark Davis.
The Raiders have long been a sad bastion of poor drafting. Paragons of sound talent evaluation the Silver & Black are not. And while much of Telesco’s tenure as the Los Angeles Chargers chief personnel man — perhaps the angst is because the Raiders new GM was with the Bolts for the last 11 years — was steeped in underachieving and not reaching the potential ownership so desperately wanted (more on this below), he did hit on early-round draft picks.