The Raiders have a big decision coming on Maxx Crosby, and this week at the NFL Combine could prove to be a pivotal point in Crosby’s future with the organization.

Every year, communication between teams and agents pick up at the Combine in Indianapolis and there’s no question Crosby will be one of the hot topics at the Combine this week.

There has been no shortage of “mock trades” involving Crosby in the last few weeks, and at this early stage in the process it sounds like most of the league has already checked in on Crosby’s availability.

To this point, there hasn’t been a consensus on what Crosby’s trade value might look like, but estimations have ranged from a first-round pick (Ian Rapoport’s projection) to a couple of first-round picks and a player (Jay Glazer’s projection).

Another media personality that weighed in on Crosby’s trade value was Tim Kawakami, who many Raider fans are familiar with dating back to the Oakland years.

For the better part of his professional career, Kawakami has rooted against the Raiders as well as he has covered them, and on Monday he offered two personnel moves the 49ers could make in the offseason that wouldn’t please many Raider fans.

First, Kawakami connected the 49ers to Tyler Linderbaum in free agency, and then offered a trade scenario for Crosby that would send the All-Pro pass rusher back to the Bay Area for just a first-round pick and a future second-round pick.

“I think they’re set up for at least one big move,” Kawakami said of the 49ers.

“I’ve written that the ideal option would be to acquire Justin Jefferson in a mega trade from Minnesota; but even while proposing it more than a month ago I acknowledged it might be very tough to pull off this cycle.”

“Crosby is a much more realistic option — and still a pretty dynamic guy to imagine lining up opposite of Bosa and turning one of the worst pass rushes in the league last year into one of the best in 2026,” Kawakami continued.

“The Raiders want a ton for him, but I don’t think this is going to be a wild-hot auction for a 28-year-old coming off an injury. And I think the 49ers will be high in the running if they offer their first-round pick (No. 27) plus a few other picks down the road. I don’t think the 49ers would want to empty this year’s stash by giving up their second- or third-round picks. But if they can offer their No. 2 in 2027 or something similar, there might be some common ground here.”

Last week, ESPN’s Adam Schefter shared what he is hearing the Raiders would want in exchange for Crosby for a deal to happen.

“I was told that the Raiders don’t want to trade [Maxx Crosby], and if they even contemplated it, then it would take a Micah Parsons type package,” Schefter told ESPN’s 97.5 The Fanatic.

“That’s what I was told. Do I think they are getting two firsts and a player? No. Do I think they want to trade him? No. Do I think he’ll be traded like AJ Brown [could be]? That’ll change by the week… Any deal involving Maxx Crosby, I would think for the Raiders to make that deal, would take a first-round pick at minimum.”

Prior to the 2025 season, the Packers sent Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kenny Clark and two first-round picks (2026, 2027) to the Cowboys for Parsons, and there doesn’t seem to be many who believe the compensation for Crosby would be in the same ballpark.

Glazer, who kicked off the trade rumors around Crosby ahead of the Super Bowl, said he thought it would take “at least” what the Cowboys got for Parsons to get Crosby, but Rapoport thinks Crosby’s value will be significantly lower.

“It’s not going to be Micah Parsons [compensation] because [Parsons] was younger,” Rapoport said two weeks ago on Raider Nation Radio’s Unnecessary Roughness with Q Myers.

“But, you know, a late [first round pick] would be real. Because the Raiders, thankfully, were bad enough, they don’t have to trade to get up to [the first pick]. They got it. It’s all just capital. If that’s what it was, they’re not going to replace Maxx Crosby, even if they hit on a great pass rusher, they’re still not going to replace him. What you do it, you replace him with a player and then use the money to go get other good players and really build up the foundation of the team. For sure you could make an argument that trading him makes sense.”

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