{"id":373834,"date":"2025-12-26T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373834\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:21:08","slug":"raiders-inform-maxx-crosby-he-wont-play-vs-giants-in-game-with-major-draft-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373834\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders inform Maxx Crosby he won’t play vs. Giants in game with major draft implications"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> plan to hold out defensive end Maxx Crosby<\/a> for their Sunday game against the New York Giants<\/a>, according to multiple reports. NFL Network is reporting<\/a> that Crosby was informed by the team that he will not play Sunday due to the knee injury he has been dealing with “since October.” Additionally, Fox is reporting<\/a> that the Raiders want to shut Crosby down for the final two games of the season — a move Crosby “vehemently” disagrees with — and the star pass rusher left the team’s facilities in response.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 2-13, the Raiders and Giants are both in contention for the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft<\/a> and their Week 17 meeting will have major implications<\/a> on which team picks first in April. The Raiders are 1.5-point home underdogs against the Giants, per DraftKings<\/a> Sportsbook.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Crosby was asked about the possibility of the Raiders landing the No. 1 pick earlier this week and was blunt with his feelings on the subject.<\/p>\n

“I don’t give a s— about the pick to be honest,” Crosby told reporters<\/a> Tuesday. “I don’t play for that. That’s not my job. My job is to be the best defensive end in the world and that’s what I’m focused on every day, and being a great leader and being an influence — being that guy on a consistent basis for my team. That’s [the NFL Draft] their job, the front office, the coaches, they do that. But that’s got nothing to do with me.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Battle for draft top pick: Giants at Raiders set for rare Week 17 matchup that NFL hasn’t seen in 44 years<\/p>\n

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The 28-year-old Crosby, one of the NFL’s<\/a> top pass rushers, has long been thought of as a top trade candidate<\/a>, especially for a Las Vegas team that seems headed toward a long rebuild period. The Dallas Cowboys reportedly showed significant interest in Crosby<\/a> before the 2025 trade deadline, though no deal materialized.<\/p>\n

Crosby, who has been vocal about his desire to stay with the Raiders, signed a three-year contract extension worth $106.5 million<\/a> in March. At the time, it made him the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A fourth-round pick of the Raiders in the 2019 NFL Draft, Crosby has two second-team All-Pro honors and five Pro Bowl appearances during his time with the Raiders. He led the NFL in tackles for loss from 2022-23 and has reached double-digit sacks in three of the last four seasons. In 15 games this season, Crosby has 73 tackles, 28 tackles for loss and 10 sacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The Las Vegas Raiders plan to hold out defensive end Maxx Crosby for their Sunday game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1250,16818,201965,593,201972,201971,201970,5345,201966,201967,201968,201969,85],"class_list":["post-373834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-maxx-crosby","tag-maxx-crosby-injury","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft-first-pick","tag-nfl-first-pick","tag-nfl-no-1-pick","tag-raiders","tag-raiders-draft-pick","tag-raiders-giants","tag-raiders-giants-odds","tag-raiders-giants-prediction","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}