{"id":901391,"date":"2026-05-26T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/901391\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:24:19","slug":"spencer-burford-could-have-inside-track-to-raiders-starting-guard-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/901391\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Burford Could Have Inside Track To Raiders’ Starting Guard Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Raider have most of their starting offensive line set with left tackle Kolton Miller<\/a>, right guard Jackson Powers-Johnson<\/a>, and right tackle Delmar Glaze<\/a> all returning from last year\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Las Vegas also signed Pro Bowl center Tyler Linderbaum<\/a> in free agency, leaving left guard as the only uncertain spot. Among the top candidates for the job is offseason signing Spencer Burford<\/a>, per Vincent Bongisnore of the California Post<\/a>. The 25-year-old brings familiarity not only with Klint Kubiak\u2018s scheme, but with the new head coach himself. He also has more playing experience than any other guard on the Raiders\u2019 roster.<\/p>\n

Originally, a fourth-round pick by the 49ers in 2022, Burford started 16 games at right guard as a rookie. In 2023, while Kubiak was San Francisco\u2019s passing game coordinator, he made another 13 starts at right guard with a handful of snaps at right tackle. Burford did not start any games the following year, but saw time at left guard and tackle.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Burford landed on injured reserve after Week 2 and took over the starting left guard job upon his return in Week 9. He started every game for the rest of the year, though several of them featured a timeshare with Ben Bartch<\/a> until he suffered a season-ending injury.<\/p>\n

Burford\u2019s main competition is likely veteran Jordan Meredith<\/a>, who has primarily played left guard during his four seasons in Las Vegas but did not line up there at all last year. Also in the mix is Atonio Mafi<\/a>, a Patriots 2023 fifth-round pick who started two games at left guard for the Raiders in 2025.<\/p>\n

Glaze, it\u2019s worth noting, gave up 10 sacks last year, per Pro Football Focus<\/a>, the second-most of any tackle, so Las Vegas could consider a change at right tackle, too. Charles Grant<\/a> and Caleb Rogers<\/a>, the Raiders\u2019 third-round tackles in 2024 and 2025, would likely have a better shot at displacing Glaze than Burford, but he does have some experience at the position in a system similar to Kubiak\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raider have most of their starting offensive line set with left tackle Kolton Miller, right guard Jackson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525,252,4819],"class_list":["post-901391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-las-vegas-raiders","tag-football","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-lasvegas","tag-lasvegasraiders","tag-nfl","tag-raiders","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-spencer-burford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116638742313855933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901391","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=901391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}