The Las Vegas Raiders have been on fire this off-season. It’s safe to say that new head coach Pete Carroll and new general manager John Spytek are not playing around. We have said it a million times already, but they’ve already checked two boxes off their list.
Coming into the offseason, the Raiders have a to-do list. They needed to complete the Maxx Crosby extension and hire a quarterback. Crosby is currently the highest-paid non-quarterback in the league, and Geno Smith will wear silver and black in 2025 and maybe for much longer than that.
But, they still have to make moves. They have to put more pieces around Crosby and Smith. Carroll has said a few times now that the plan is to start winning this year, he doesn’t see there being a large window to rebuild. The rebuild is this offseason, and the start of the 2025 season is straight into competing. But, that can’t happen with making moves in both free agency and the 2025 NFL Draft.
However, to make moves in free agency, you have to have money and cap space. The Raiders have that. After making the early moves they have made, they now have $51 million. But, they messed up along the way.