It is Super Bowl week and we\u2019re looking at some connections to the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n
This own is a tale of what could have been.<\/p>\n
Las Vegas general manager used the rare restricted free-agency approached and signed Elliss to an offer sheet last year. Because he was given the low tender, the Raiders wouldn\u2019t have owe New England any draft-pick compensation and they would not match. There was wide media speculation that the Patriots wouldn\u2019t match the Raiders\u2019 offer.<\/p>\n
In the end, though, New England opted to match the deal the Raiders planned with Elliss. It was a two-year, $13.5 million pact with $7.775 guaranteed money. It was a reminder to the rest of NFL why many teams don\u2019t use restricted free agency because teams don\u2019t want to do deals for other teams.<\/p>\n
But it was worth the shot for the Raiders, who needed linebackers last offseason and still do.<\/p>\n
Elliss, a fifth-year pro, stated a career-high 13 games in 2025 and had a career-high 94 tackles in a season that once thought would be spent in Las Vegas but ends in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is Super Bowl week and we\u2019re looking at some connections to the Las Vegas Raiders. This own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,781,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-726921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-general","10":"tag-las-vegas","11":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","12":"tag-lasvegas","13":"tag-lasvegasraiders","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116008256208490665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726921","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=726921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}