{"id":860851,"date":"2026-04-08T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860851\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:21:27","slug":"3-risky-moves-raiders-made-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860851\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Risky Moves Raiders Made in Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/las_vegas_raiders\/43\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> made plenty of smart moves this offseason as they try to build a long-term winner. <\/p>\n<p> General Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/john_spytek\/927474\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Spytek<\/a> got to work on re-tooling a roster that needed to tear it down and start over. With lots of cap space to work with, Spytek didn&#8217;t have to spend like crazy, and he was smart with the franchise&#8217;s money. <\/p>\n<p>We recently highlighted the best moves Las Vegas made in free agency, and you can read that piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/raiders\/onsi\/best-moves-las-vegas-made-in-free-agency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders made plenty of smart moves this offseason as they try to build a long-term&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-860851","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-lasvegas","12":"tag-lasvegasraiders","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116369063428426283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860851","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=860851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}