{"id":791726,"date":"2026-03-04T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/791726\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:55:12","slug":"how-much-do-raiders-have-to-spend-on-draft-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/791726\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do Raiders have to spend on draft class?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Las Vegas Raiders are expected to have 10 picks in the April 23-25 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They currently are projected to have amongst the most salary-cap room in the league when free agency starts next week. The Raiders are expected to be very active and they have many holes to fill and they want to quickly become competitive. So, they need all the cap space they can get.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While spending on the veteran market, the team does need to account and plan to sign their rookie class, including undrafted free agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to OverThe Cap.com,<\/a> the Raiders\u2019 estimated rookie pool amount is about $21.6 million for 2026. It\u2019s based on the value and the amount of picks they have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Raiders have among most rookie-pool allottment in the league because they have the No. 1 overall pick in the draft, of course and they are expected to take Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The projected worth of the No.1 overall pick in this draft is for four years at about $55 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders are expected to have 10 picks in the April 23-25 NFL draft. They currently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,2492,12621,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-791726","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-las-vegas","10":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","11":"tag-las-vegas-raiders-draft","12":"tag-las-vegas-raiders-salary-cap","13":"tag-lasvegas","14":"tag-lasvegasraiders","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116171723681793520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791726","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=791726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}