The Las Vegas Raiders snapped their 10-game dropping streak on Sunday with a 19-14 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Their win may need additionally been the New York Giants’ acquire.
The Raiders’ win might doubtlessly alter the highest of the 2025 NFL Draft in a big approach, because it dropped them out of the potential No. 1 total spot and moved the Giants into it.
The Giants, because of an appalling 34-7 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, are actually in sole possession of the worst document within the NFL. In the event that they preserve that it could give them the highest decide within the draft for the primary time for the reason that 1965 draft (the place they took Auburn operating again Tucker Frederickson).
New York additionally picked No. 1 total in 1951 and took SMU finish Kyle Rote.
The Raiders, in the meantime, went from the No. 1 decide right into a five-way tie (with the New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans and Cleveland Browns) at 3-12. However as a result of the Raiders have the hardest energy of schedule, they drop all the way in which all the way down to what can be the potential No. 6 decide within the draft.
The current draft order for the top-10 after Sunday’s games can be as follows:
1. New York Giants (2-13)
2. New England Patriots (3-12)
3. Jacksonville Jaguars (3-12)
4. Tennessee Titans (3-12)
5. Cleveland Browns (3-12)
6. Las Vegas Raiders (3-12)
7. Carolina Panthers (4-11)
8. New York Jets (4-11)
9. Chicago Bears (4-11)
10. New Orleans Saints (5-9)
It is very important consider when draft decide discussions occur late within the common season that the coaches and gamers really collaborating within the video games don’t care. They wish to win.
They’re taking part in for jobs, both with their present workforce or their subsequent workforce, and doubtless couldn’t care much less a few draft decide that may be on the workforce lengthy after they’re lower, traded or go away in free company.
It could possibly even have a humorous approach of working itself out. It was solely two years in the past that the Houston Texans went for a two-point conversion to win a Week 18 sport that took them out of the No. 1 spot within the draft, dropping them all the way down to the No. 2 decide. Outgoing head coach Lovie Smith simply needed to win, and the gamers on the roster liked it and didn’t care about shifting one decide decrease.
It nonetheless ended up figuring out for the Texans as a result of they used the No. 2 decide on quarterback C.J. Stroud. If they’d the No. 1 decide it is rather probably they’d have taken Bryce Younger, who has not been anyplace close to the participant Stroud is up to now.
So simply play the video games and let all of it kind itself out.
If the Giants merely lose their remaining two video games (dwelling in opposition to the Indianapolis Colts and on the Philadelphia Eagles) the highest decide will belong to them.
The highest prospects on this yr’s class embrace Colorado teammates Shedeur Sanders (quarterback) and Travis Hunter (broad receiver and cornerback) and Miami quarterback Cam Ward.
