{"id":287624,"date":"2026-04-27T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287624\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:38:10","slug":"raiders-draft-grades-roundup-wide-praise-for-las-vegas-2026-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287624\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders draft grades roundup: Wide praise for Las Vegas 2026 class"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Raiders<\/a> had a very exciting draft. From expected pick of number one overall QB Fernando Mendoza<\/a>, to some unexpected day two picks, to some savvy day three maneuvering. Once all was said and done, the draft grades across the NFL seemed largely positive.<\/p>\n

I gave my pick-by-pick and overall grade for this Raiders draft class<\/a>. But the rest of the NFL just goes with the full draft class approach.<\/p>\n

The most important pick was the most obvious one for the Raiders. That was the selection of QB Fernando Mendoza at the top of the draft.<\/p>\n

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In total, they made ten picks, traded down twice, up twice, and sent Tyree Wilson<\/a> and a pick to New Orleans to move get a fifth round pick. Here are the ten picks that came from it:<\/p>\n

1.1<\/p>\n

Fernando Mendoza, QB, Indiana<\/a><\/p>\n

2.38<\/p>\n

Treydan Stukes<\/a>, S, Arizona<\/a><\/p>\n

3.67<\/p>\n

Keyron Crawford<\/a>, DE, Auburn<\/p>\n

3.91<\/p>\n

Trey Kuhn III, G, Texas A&M<\/p>\n

4.101<\/p>\n

Jermod McCoy<\/a>, CB, Tennessee<\/a><\/p>\n

4.122<\/p>\n

Mike Washington Jr, RB, Arkansas<\/a><\/p>\n

5.150<\/p>\n

Dalton Johnson<\/a>, S, Arizona<\/p>\n

5.175<\/p>\n

Hezekiah Masses, CB, Cal<\/p>\n

6.195<\/p>\n

Malik Benson<\/a>, WR, Oregon<\/a><\/p>\n

7.229<\/p>\n

Brandon Cleveland, DT, NC State<\/p>\n

This class led to six A grades, four grades of A-, and one B grade.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: Raiders draft grades roundup: Wide praise for Las Vegas 2026 class<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders had a very exciting draft. From expected pick of number one overall QB Fernando Mendoza, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1956,549,123177,123171,123170,37226,9520,37248,123175,123174,752,143,145,144,545,11595,123172,20266,572,8936,123176,123173],"class_list":["post-287624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arizona","tag-arkansas","tag-dalton-johnson","tag-draft-class","tag-draft-grades","tag-fernando-mendoza","tag-indiana","tag-jermod-mccoy","tag-keyron-crawford","tag-malik-benson","tag-nfl","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oregon","tag-raiders","tag-raiders-draft-class","tag-raiders-history","tag-tennessee","tag-texas-am","tag-treydan-stukes","tag-tyree-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287624","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=287624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}