{"id":840174,"date":"2026-03-29T02:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840174\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T02:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T02:45:27","slug":"raider-nation-is-all-in-on-drafting-a-wr-in-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/840174\/","title":{"rendered":"Raider Nation is all in on drafting a WR in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Las Vegas Raiders are getting ready for the NFL draft and entering with 10 picks to build the roster. While Raider Nation is excited about the free-agency haul, it is time to finish the rest of the roster in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There is much debate about the way John Spytek will handle the draft. The offensive line and wide receiver rooms were addressed last season, but we didn\u2019t get to see the results on the field. It could be a draft where they look at the defense. It is still a possibility that they could fill the wide receiver room with new talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In this week\u2019s SB Nation Reacts, we ask Raider Nation if the team should draft a wide receiver. The Nation is all in on adding outside talent for Fernando Mendoza and Kubiak, with 76% of fans believing it should happen in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What it means for Jack Bech and Dont\u2019e Thornton Jr. remains to be seen. Spytek added both of those plays in 2025, but they didn\u2019t amount to much production. With the signing of Jalen Nailor as well, there will be plenty of competition fighting to be the number one receiver for the Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders are getting ready for the NFL draft and entering with 10 picks to build&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,7335,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-840174","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-odds","12":"tag-lasvegas","13":"tag-lasvegasraiders","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116310175019521832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840174","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=840174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}