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USAT: Raiders Wire

Mar 30, 2022

Today marks exactly two weeks since the open of free agency. Thus far the Raiders have been busy. They’ve acquired 20 new players either as free agent additions or via trade. The question is, however, how many of those new players would be considered started based on the current makeup of the team? - Let’s take a look at what that starting lineup might be if the season started today. - *denotes newly acquired player - Offense - QB Derek Carr - RB Josh Jacobs - FB Jakob Johnson* - WR Davante Adams* - WR Bryan Edwards - SWR Hunter Renfrow - TE Darren Waller - LT Kolton Miller - LG John Simpson - C Andre James - RG Alex Leatherwood - RT Denzelle Good - Notes: There are three positions among this lineup that are not settled — WR, G, and T. - Bryan Edwards will get pushed by newcomer Demarcus Robinson. Though I think Edwards will win that challenge, it could ultimately end up coming down to what type of receiver they want on the other side of Adams. - Guard and tackle are unsettled because the team has several players who can player either position (but none who are a lock to start at RT) and it’s about finding the right combination. Depending on whether Leatherwood shows improvement as a tackle, he and Good could be interchangeable on the right side. Overall, it’s not a great situation that they don’t have a solid right tackle option, just several possibles. - Defense - DT Bilal Nichols* - DT Andrew Billings* - ED Maxx Crosby - ED Chandler Jones* - LB Denzel Perryman - LB Divine Deablo - CB Trayvon Mullen - CB Rock Ya-Sin* - SCB Nate Hobbs - SS Johnathan Abram - FS Tre’von Moehrig - Notes: Unsettled positions based on current players on the roster are DT and LB. - Once again the Raiders signed a bunch of DTs. But unlike last year, none of the players they added have shown starter potential. Vernon Butler and Kyle Peko will push for playing time as well. - Deablo finished last season strong at the outside linebacker spot, but he will have challengers for his job from newcomers Micah Kiser, Jayon Brown, and Kyle Fackrell. - There has been a lot of rumors flying around that the Raiders are interested in signing free agent safety Tyrann Mathieu. If there is any truth to that and they somehow end up landing him, obviously he would be inserted as the starter over Johnathan Abram. - - - - - - - - - - - - Email - - - - - Sign up - - - - - - - - Like this article? - Sign up for the Raiders Wire email newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning - - - - An error has occured - - - Please re-enter your email address. - - - - - - Thanks for signing up! - - - You'll now receive the top Raiders Wire stories each day directly in your inbox.

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