{"id":870578,"date":"2026-04-20T11:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870578\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:37:02","slug":"identifying-raiders-cornerstones-ahead-of-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/870578\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Raiders Cornerstones Ahead of 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The NFL Draft is just days away as 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> make their preparations to presumptively select Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the first overall pick on Thursday night in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>The Raiders, led by general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/raiders\/onsi\/las-vegas-why-trading-back-second-round-could-benefit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Spytek<\/a>  and head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/klint_kubiak\/927569\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Klint Kubiak<\/a>, are hoping to make a significant leap forward in their first season together. While we&#8217;re here, this is a great time to identify the cornerstone pieces of the roster ahead of the draft. Some of these names are obvious, while others may spell debate as we look at the stars of the franchise.  <\/p>\n<p>Maxx Crosby, Edge Rusher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL Draft is just days away as the Las Vegas Raiders make their preparations to presumptively select&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":{"0":"post-870578","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\/116436836938275263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870578","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=870578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}