{"id":818095,"date":"2026-03-18T00:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818095\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:18:31","slug":"raiders-sign-offensive-lineman-who-may-compete-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818095\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders sign offensive lineman who may compete to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverandblackpride.com\/las-vegas-raiders-analysis\/124719\/las-vegas-raiders-free-agency-offensive-targets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Las Vegas Raiders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Las Vegas Raiders&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> continue to work through the second phase of NFL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverandblackpride.com\/las-vegas-raiders-news\/121991\/raiders-news-2026-nfl-free-agency-tracker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:free agency;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;free agency&quot;}\" class=\"link \">free agency<\/a> as they have signed offensive lineman Spencer Burford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Burford may compete for a starting guard spot with second-year player Caleb Rogers or he can provide depth.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Burford, 25, was a fourth round draft pick (No. 134 overall pick) of the San Francisco 49ers in 2022.out of Texas-San Antonio. He started a total of 29 games in his first two seasons, but he didn\u2019t start any games in 2024, but started 9 games in 2025. Burford has played in 56 career NFL games with 38 starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Burford also visited with the Los Angeles Chargers before he visited the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Burford has history with new Las Vegas coach Klint Kubiak, who was the 49ers\u2019 passing-game coordinator in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So, Kubiak clearly had some knowledge and expectations of how to use Burford on the offensive line in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders continue to work through the second phase of NFL free agency as they have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[7033,241,7,392,8357,1744,393,1014,262,2444,2443,1360,6,453,252,4819],"class_list":{"0":"post-818095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-caleb-rogers","9":"tag-chargers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-klint-kubiak","13":"tag-las-vegas","14":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangeleschargers","19":"tag-lucas-oil-stadium","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-offensive-lineman","22":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","23":"tag-spencer-burford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116247311381902353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818095","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=818095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}