{"id":191636,"date":"2025-07-08T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/191636\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:16:10","slug":"raiders-trade-scenario-sends-disgruntled-68-million-star-wide-receiver-to-sin-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/191636\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders trade scenario sends disgruntled $68 million star wide receiver to Sin City"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Las Vegas Raiders have a shaky situation when it comes to their wide receivers.<\/p>\n

Other than Jakobi Meyers, there isn’t a lot of experience in the room, and Las Vegas might have to depend on two rookies, Jack Bech and Dont’e Thornton, for big roles.<\/p>\n

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That is, unless the team makes a significant move to bring in a veteran wide receiver, like Terry McLaurin of the Washington Commanders, for example.<\/p>\n

That scenario was recently floated by Sports Illustrated’s Mike Kadlick<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“McLaurin would immediately enter Sin City as the No. 1 option in the Raiders’ offense, creating a quality three-headed monster alongside Meyers and tight end Brock Bowers,” Kadlick wrote.<\/p>\n

McLaurin has been embroiled in a contract dispute with the Commanders during the offseason, and he’s reportedly “not happy”<\/a> with how things are going.<\/p>\n

If neither side budges and McLaurin, who is entering the final year of his $68 million contract, decides to hold out, it’s conceivable Washington could trade him.<\/p>\n

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As Kadlick notes, McLaurin would step into the No. 1 receiver role with the Raiders, who would likely have to give up a Day 2 pick to acquire his services.<\/p>\n

From there, Las Vegas would likely have to extend him to make McLaurin happy, but the Raiders have a good enough salary cap situation<\/a> over the next few years to get that done.<\/p>\n

In a division that has a ton of firepower, it certainly wouldn’t hurt for the Raiders to add more to their own offense. McLaurin would be just what the doctor ordered to help elevate Geno Smith, and the Raiders’ offense as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders have a shaky situation when it comes to their wide receivers. Other than Jakobi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[797,7,1507,315,6913,1744,393,2455,2454,41476,6,525,41553,7186,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-191636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-brock-bowers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-geno-smith","11":"tag-jack-bech","12":"tag-jakobi-meyers","13":"tag-las-vegas","14":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","15":"tag-lasvegas","16":"tag-lasvegasraiders","17":"tag-mike-kadlick","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-raiders","20":"tag-shaky-situation","21":"tag-terry-mclaurin","22":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114819222334661328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}