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The Raiders cannot afford to blow draft picks. They’re in the course of the deepest rebuilding challenge within the league, and with so much dead cap space, they wanted to hit on draft picks.
Instead, they’ve already minimize a fourth-spherical decide earlier than he even performs an everyday-season recreation.
Quarterback Tyler Wilson’s drop is shocking. Before he came back for his closing season at Arkansas he was thought of a potential high 10 NFL draft pick. He struggled as a senior, fell to the fourth spherical and now he’s out of a job after the lowly Raiders cut him. Pro Football Speak was the primary to report that news.
The idea to take a shot on a quarterback within the fourth spherical was good for the Raiders. However Wilson was so dangerous he’s on the lookout for a job already.
Despite being praised throughout minicamps (youngsters, let’s bear in mind this subsequent year when observers are going loopy over rookies in meaningless practices), Wilson plummeted rapidly in coaching camp. He was effectively behind undrafted Matt McGloin in the preseason.
The Raiders’ resolution to cut him now means they do not suppose he can be salvaged. This is a workforce that entered Sunday with two punters on the roster (they did cut Chris Kluwe Sunday afternoon to get down to 1). And no clear quarterback of the future both. The Raiders, who aren’t going to make the playoffs this yr anyway, could afford to use a roster spot on a fourth-spherical pick at quarterback if they thought there was any probability Wilson could develop into a competent player. By slicing Wilson now, they’re announcing they think he has absolutely no future as a NFL quarterback. Or they’d don’t have any problem retaining him around to develop. It’s a really unhealthy mistake by basic supervisor Reggie McKenzie. Wilson was the best choose in the 2013 draft cut over the weekend. Seahawks receiver Chris Harper was the only different fourth-spherical decide lower.
Perhaps the Raiders didn’t use him proper and another staff can turn him round. He has to have some expertise to justify that 2012 draft hype, which got here earlier than he made the regrettable resolution to return again for one more 12 months (how might he have identified Bobby Petrino would sink Arkansas’ season together with his idiocy?).
But if you cannot make the Raiders, the one crew that was still auditioning gamers in Week four to determine a beginning quarterback, that’s a horrible sign for Wilson’s NFL future.
Oakland Raiders cut QB Tyler Wilson, their fourth-round pick in this year’s draft
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