{"id":774887,"date":"2026-02-25T07:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774887\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:26:20","slug":"raiders-gm-wants-maxx-crosby-to-stay-but-will-listen-to-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774887\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders GM wants Maxx Crosby to stay, but will listen to offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The Las Vegas Raiders are planning to keep star edge rusher Maxx Crosby despite the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/maxx-crosby-raiders-55e7467c38443246d2e09e4a91a18ca1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trade talk<\/a> around the five-time Pro Bowl pick, general manager John Spytek said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaxx is an elite player. I\u2019ve been very upfront from the start since I got here, that we\u2019re in the business of having really good players on the team, and we need a lot more of them,\u201d Spytek said at the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> scouting combine in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>But when asked if Crosby is \u201cuntradeable,\u201d Spytek said: \u201cWe\u2019re always listening, man.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Crosby has been rehabilitating from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/maxx-crosby-raiders-knee-surgery-7ab070fd6ddaa1dd26ce6b0aac8f1abe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left knee surgery<\/a> he underwent three days after the regular season ended, as speculation about his status has persisted following an NFL-worst 3-14 record for the Raiders and the firing of coach Pete Carroll after just one year on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby said earlier this month he doesn\u2019t want out and that the unsubstantiated reports suggesting he does make him laugh. His future with the club that drafted him in the fourth round out of Eastern Michigan in 2019 became a subject when he was <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/maxx-crosby-raiders-injured-reserve-ir-9a6d2eb2787e07a3084e9597afa93d12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">placed on injured reserve<\/a> with two games left against his wish, preferring to play out the season. Crosby, who has 69\u00bd sacks in seven years, had a career-high 28 tackles for loss in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The Las Vegas Raiders are planning to keep star edge rusher Maxx Crosby despite the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,12224,932,4949,1744,393,2455,2454,6563,122,2699,6,498,29990,22222,3976,525,9],"class_list":["post-774887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-las-vegas-raiders","tag-football","tag-in-state-wire","tag-indiana","tag-john-spytek","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-lasvegas","tag-lasvegasraiders","tag-maxx-crosby","tag-national-football-league","tag-nevada","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-football","tag-nfl-pro-bowl","tag-nv-state-wire","tag-pete-carroll","tag-raiders","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116130085954706951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774887","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=774887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}