Overview
- CBS Sports insider Pete Prisco publicly urged the Raiders on Monday to consider trading Maxx Crosby if the team’s slide continues, arguing the move would align with a rebuild timeline centered on young players.
- Crosby remains productive this season by analytic measures, with Pro Football Focus figures cited in coverage showing a high grade and double-digit pressures alongside modest sack totals.
- The Raiders kept Crosby after an offseason trade to the Baltimore Ravens collapsed on a failed medical, a deal that reportedly nearly fetched two first-round picks.
- Prisco and outlets named likely suitors including the Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville as teams that could call the Raiders before the deadline to add a proven pass rusher.
- How Las Vegas performs in its upcoming home games versus Buffalo and the Rams is being framed as the key test that could push management to seek draft assets and accelerate changes to the roster and coaching plan.