{"id":874617,"date":"2026-04-25T21:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874617\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:54:18","slug":"las-vegas-raiders-nfl-draft-grade-for-wide-receiver-malik-benson-raiders-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874617\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Raiders NFL draft grade for wide receiver Malik Benson | Raiders News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> selected wide receiver Malik Benson from Oregon in the sixth round of the NFL draft on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Benson is a deep-ball threat who can stretch defenses vertically and mostly plays on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>He was an accomplished track star in high school, and his speed is his best weapon as a receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas Nation podcast<\/p>\n<p>The grade: B-<\/p>\n<p>Benson has some potentially useful traits for sure, particularly his speed and ability to be a threat that opens up the line of scrimmage for his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s fairly limited in his route tree, however, and is fairly similar to current Raiders receiver Dont\u2019e Thornton Jr., though Benson is a far superior tracker of the ball in flight.<\/p>\n<p>Benson\u2019s slight frame makes it a challenge to block, and he isn\u2019t exceptional on contested catches. He\u2019s also surprisingly limited as a runner after the catch for someone with his speed.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Adam Hill at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/raiders\/grading-raiders-pick-of-oregon-wr-malik-benson-3792799\/mailto:ahill@reviewjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ahill@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamHillLVRJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@AdamHillLVRJ<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders selected wide receiver Malik Benson from Oregon in the sixth round of the NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874618,"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-874617","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\/116467575239969294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874617","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=874617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}