{"id":388450,"date":"2025-11-18T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388450\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:43:16","slug":"6-moves-the-las-vegas-raiders-can-make-to-right-the-franchise-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388450\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Moves the Las Vegas Raiders Can Make to Right the Franchise in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">While linebacker and safety aren&#8217;t premium positions in terms of demand in free agency or draft projection, the Raiders must restock both spots for the long-term future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The team&#8217;s starting linebackers, Devin White and Elandon Roberts, have expiring contracts. White has played well enough to earn a new deal, but Roberts will be 32 in April. Jamal Adams, who transitioned from safety to linebacker, is also on a one-year contract. He&#8217;ll be 31 next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Jeremy Chinn can play multiple positions in the secondary, but he&#8217;s best suited to line up in the box. The versatile defensive back has <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/ChinJe00.htm#adv_defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">allowed<\/a> a passer rating of 105.3 (out of a possible 158.3) or worse in five out of six seasons.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Las Vegas needs another young linebacker, whether it re-signs White or not, and a safety who can erase mistakes in coverage with takeaways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Maurice Moton covers the NFL for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoeMoton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">@MoeMoton.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While linebacker and safety aren&#8217;t premium positions in terms of demand in free agency or draft projection, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-388450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115572887233742473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}