{"id":220752,"date":"2026-03-15T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220752\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:30:40","slug":"raiders-draft-countdown-pete-banaszak-is-best-no-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220752\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders draft countdown: Pete Banaszak is best No. 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty days remain until the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 23-25, 2026. After a 3-14 season in 2025, the Las Vegas Raiders hold the No. 1 overall pick as this daily countdown continues through the franchise\u2019s best players by jersey number.<\/p>\n<p>Today, March 14, the number is 40.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Banaszak, No. 40<\/p>\n<p>Pete Banaszak is the pick for No. 40 because he delivered long-term value as a dependable runner during the Raiders rise from the AFL into a championship-level franchise. From 1966-1978, Banaszak was a steady back who handled volume, converted tough yards, and stayed productive across multiple eras of Raiders football.<\/p>\n<p>Banaszak played 173 games for the Raiders and rushed 964 times for 3,772 yards and 47 touchdowns. That touchdown total is the separator for this number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty days remain until the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 23-25, 2026. After a 3-14 season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-220752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}