{"id":249980,"date":"2025-07-31T06:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/249980\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:36:15","slug":"raiders-sign-fourth-round-pick-wr-donte-thornton-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/249980\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders sign fourth-round pick WR Dont\u2019e Thornton Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON, Nev. \u2013 The Las Vegas Raiders have signed fourth-round draft pick WR Dont&#8217;e Thornton Jr., the club announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton Jr., a 6-foot-4, 205-pound wide receiver, was selected with the 108th overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. He spent two seasons at Oregon (2021-22) before transferring to Tennessee (2023-24) for his final two seasons of his college career, appearing in 51 career games with 12 starts and recording 65 receptions for 1,426 yards (21.9 avg.) and 10 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, he recorded 26 receptions for 661 yards (25.4 avg.) and six touchdowns. He led the FBS averaging 25.4 yards per reception and ranked first with six receptions of 50-plus yards.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Baltimore, Md., Thornton Jr. attended Mount St. Joseph, where he was rated the No. 1 wide receiver in Maryland after totaling 78 receptions for 1,881 yards (24.1 avg.) and 26 touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENDERSON, Nev. \u2013 The Las Vegas Raiders have signed fourth-round draft pick WR Dont&#8217;e Thornton Jr., the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5362,7,268,269,2818,6477,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-249980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-donte-thornton-jr","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-home-centerpiece","11":"tag-home-latest-stories","12":"tag-news-press-release","13":"tag-news-transactions","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114946466635040878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249980","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=249980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}