{"id":110183,"date":"2025-08-26T01:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110183\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:35:19","slug":"raiders-news-las-vegas-trades-for-veteran-quarterback-kenny-pickett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110183\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders News: Las Vegas trades for veteran quarterback Kenny Pickett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverandblackpride.com\/las-vegas-raiders-news\/107940\/aidan-oconnell-injured\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan O\u2019Connell suffered a fractured wrist<\/a> in the Raiders\u2019 final preseason game last weekend, head coach Pete Carroll said the team would be looking for a veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverandblackpride.com\/nfl-preseason\/107814\/raiders-preseason-training-camp-roster-aidan-oconnell-backup-quarterback\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">backup quarterback option<\/a>. Rookie sixth-round pick Cam Miller was the Silver and Black\u2019s only other option on the roster, but Miller struggled over the last two weeks and isn\u2019t quite ready for regular-season action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In steps Pickett, who became available after the Browns named Joe Flacco their starter last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh product was a first-round pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2022, starting 24 games over two seasons and going 14-10 for the Steelers. However, the organization was looking for more out of the quarterback, as he was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles and the Steelers signed Russell Wilson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pickett spent the majority of last season backing up Jalen Hurts for the Super Bowl Champs, appearing in five games but making just one start. The latter came via a Week 18 matchup against the New York Giants, where Philadelphia had nothing to play for but still won 14-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the offseason, the Eagles traded him to the Browns, where he hoped to win the starting job. However, the former first-rounder suffered a hamstring injury on July 26 and wasn\u2019t able to practice for the rest of training camp, nor play in any of Cleveland\u2019s preseason games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In three seasons and 30 career games (25 starts), Pickett has completed 62.6 percent of his passes, thrown for 4,474 yards and 13 touchdowns with 13 interceptions. He\u2019s also rushed for 306 yards and five touchdowns. The 27-year-old is in the last year of his rookie contract after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/44906331\/browns-exercise-qb-pickett-fifth-year-option\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Browns opted not to pick up his fifth-year option<\/a> this past April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Aidan O\u2019Connell suffered a fractured wrist in the Raiders\u2019 final preseason game last weekend, head coach Pete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,72259,72260,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-110183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-las-vegas-raiders-depth-chart","tag-las-vegas-raiders-roster","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}