{"id":926025,"date":"2026-06-22T20:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/926025\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:03:19","slug":"las-vegas-raiders-offensive-positional-battles-to-watch-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/926025\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Raiders Offensive Positional Battles to Watch. Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Las Vegas Raiders don\u2019t break for training camp for another 6 weeks, but their has already been positional battles to start, and to be talked about. The Raiders coming off a 3-14 season are not going to pencil in their starters, there\u2019s a lot of youth, and with that a lot of unproven talent. The Raiders completely overhauled their offense, defense, and special teams with a projected 29th ranking in the NFL for returning snaps largely due to many Carrol veterans &amp; defensive veterans leaving the organization last off-season. With training cap set to break soon, some core battles on all three phases will take light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Starting QB: Kirk Cousins (80%) vs Fernando Mendoza (20%)<br \/>Dark Horse: N\/A<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Rotational RB: Mike Washington (60%) vs Roman Hemby (30%) vs Dylan Laube (10%)<br \/>Dark Horse: Chris Collier (1%), Non Roster RB (9%)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Depth RB: Roman Hemby (30%) vs Dylan Laube (30%) vs BOTH (30%)<br \/>Dark Horse: Other (10%)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Fullback: Connor Heyward (80%)<br \/>Dark Horse: Patrick Gurd (20%)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Depth Receivers &#8211; 3 Spots: Dont\u2019e Thornton vs Malik Benson vs Shedrick Jackson vs Dareke Young<br \/>Dark Horse: Brandon Johnson, Chase Roberts, Phillip Dorsett<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Depth Tight End: Ian Thomas (30%) vs Carter Runyon (30%) vs BOTH (30%)<br \/>Dark Horse: Albert Okwuegbunam Jr (10%)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tackle Depth: Dalton Wagner (40%) vs Isaiah Jatta (20%) vs Niklas Henning (5%)<br \/>Dark Horse: Not On Roster\/None (35%)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Starting Guards &#8211; 2 Spots: Jordan Meredith vs Spencer Burford vs Jackson Powers-Johnson vs Caleb Rogers vs Trey Zuhn<br \/>Dark Horse: None<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders don\u2019t break for training camp for another 6 weeks, but their has already been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,77335,52096,2455,2454,6,525],"class_list":["post-926025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-las-vegas-raiders","tag-football","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-las-vegas-raiders-analysis","tag-las-vegas-raiders-preseason","tag-lasvegas","tag-lasvegasraiders","tag-nfl","tag-raiders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116795552805781099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926025","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=926025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}