Free Agency thread for Raiders and league-wide

[RunOverByHubbard]

Free agency opens March 11. CBS Sports has their top 50 ranking. No Raiders on the list. I am surprised at a couple rated high - Aaron Rodgers and Daniel Jones. Lots of wide receivers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/earl ... ng-top-50/

[WNYRAIDER]

....but, but, but, we have plenty of money and need not concern ourselves with such silly nonsense....

[islandboy]

When it comes to those free-agent deals, Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer reports that the Raiders do intend on honoring all of the signings they made and the nixed trade with Baltimore will not impact them.

"Source: The Raiders will honor all the agreements they made with free agents —both their own and the incoming guys—over the last 48 hours, despite the stunning developments of last night," Breer reported.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las ... 0c8aa17e1b

[chucker]

The Raiders are a better team today than they were yesterday. Move forward, f[raiders_icon]ck the Ravens. All the players we signed were guys we should have signed even if we hadn't traded Crosby, other than maybe Paye.

[Rabidraider]

Hendrickson signing with Baltimore.

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[chucker]

The Hendrickson deal is agreed to, but he still has to pass a physical.........

[WNYRAIDER]

....so without the #14, what do we target with the early 2nd? ....and now, do we perhaps sign a short term d tackle or 2? ....I know we have some guys that have shown some stuff, but i'd imagine they will want at least one vet.

[Attyla]

....so without the #14, what do we target with the early 2nd? ....and now, do we perhaps sign a short term d tackle or 2? ....I know we have some guys that have shown some stuff, but i'd imagine they will want at least one vet.

Blake Miller is an option and should be there. I like Pregnon who is strong as an ox. Iheanachor I have kept an eye on and is a true RT.

Those are three I think we have to watch at this point in time

[eastcoast128]

Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Chaisson has agreed to sign with the Commanders. It is a one-year deal worth $12 million in Washington.

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[Sold My Soul]

Most improved units....

Las Vegas Raiders linebackers

Like the Titans, the Raiders were armed with an upper-echelon amount of cap space this cycle. General manager John Spytek certainly ameliorated the bedrocks of a bad offense, but he also concentrated on linebacker in particular. Las Vegas reunited former Georgia teammates Nakobe Dean and Quay Walker, giving the pair a combined $76.5 million to leave the Eagles and Packers, respectively.

While Dean has battled injury throughout his career, he’s been dynamic as a blitzer by generating 30 pressures on only 110 pass-rushing snaps. Further, Dean’s run defense was outstanding during Philadelphia’s championship season in 2024, as he compiled an 82.5 grade on the ground.

Although Walker’s grading profile is a bit more alarming for his price point — his PFF run-defense and coverage grades sat below 55.0 in 2025 — he’s an extremely reliable tackler. Since 2023, Walker’s 7.2% missed tackle rate ties for the fifth-lowest among linebackers with at least 200 tackles in that span.

As with Tennessee, there are doubts about whether either Dean or Walker will live up to their prodigious contracts over the next few years. Nevertheless, both will help reshape a linebacker room that was most recently 26th in overall PFF grade.

[Jeevo]

There’s no f[raiders_icon]cking way the Ravens are planning to try to match our Linderbaum offer in hopes of keeping him with their new cap space is there? I mean it would be shocking if Linderbaum and his team were as perfidious as DeCosta the snake and his, but is it possible that they try?

[chucker]

Here's the finalized contract confirmation we've all been waiting for:

[WNYRAIDER]

There’s no f[raiders_icon]cking way the Ravens are planning to try to match our Linderbaum offer in hopes of keeping him with their new cap space is there? I mean it would be shocking if Linderbaum and his team were as perfidious as DeCosta the snake and his, but is it possible that they try?

....there is no way that they'd be able to match it, but that doesn't mean he couldn't give them a hometown discount as, at least before all of their free agent losses, word was that he wanted to stay there. ...I guess until things are signed, and with what we saw from the ravens yesterday, how can you completely rule out them trying?

[Sold My Soul]

The Ravens agreed to a four-year, $112 million deal with Trey Hendrickson on Wednesday, hours after restructuring Lamar Jackson's contract. The reworked deal freed up nearly $39 million in cap space and took Baltimore from the middle of the pack in cap space to No. 3 overall with $58,517,187 available, according to Over The Cap