{"id":477478,"date":"2026-02-19T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477478\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:29:09","slug":"host-names-player-hed-send-5-jets-with-cash-to-see-sign-with-the-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477478\/","title":{"rendered":"Host Names Player He\u2019d Send 5 Jets with Cash to See Sign with the Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raidersbeat.com\/host-names-player-hed-send-5-jets-with-cash-to-see-sign-with-the-raiders\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Host Names Player He\u2019d Send 5 Jets with Cash to See Sign with the Raiders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"887\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9886-1.jpeg\" class=\"mintwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Raiders are expected to enter the 2026 season with more than $100 million in salary cap room and there is one player everyone seems to agree they need to pursue in free agency. <\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Sports host Jason Fitz was a guest on the Raiders\u2019 flagship radio station this week and he was the latest to say Tom Brady and company need to go hard after the top offensive lineman in this year\u2019s free agent class. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive me [Tyler] Linderbaum at center,\u201d Fitz said on Raider Nation Radio\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-morning-tailgate\/id1595028056?i=1000750190422&amp;r=2267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Morning Tailgate<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he gets out of Baltimore, then I don\u2019t care if Mark Davis needs to send five personal jets filled with just wads of cash and dump them over his house at midnight when they\u2019re signing up. I don\u2019t care what you have to do. I don\u2019t care if you give him like his own wall in Allegiant Stadium. I don\u2019t care. Whatever it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raidersbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0372.jpeg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0372.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43662\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear now people. I can just hear them through my phone yelling [for] JPJ back to center. I know.<br \/>Look, let\u2019s take what we saw last year and let\u2019s acknowledge that last year wasn\u2019t good enough. I can say that, stop that, and then go to the next page on it,\u201d Fitz continued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had multiple people that I think are smart in the way that they break down offensive linemen. I\u2019ve had multiple former offensive linemen tell me JPJ is better suited at guard. I don\u2019t think that that was a revolutionary thought. I just thought it was a poorly executed one. So\u2026 if you\u2019re telling me that the right coach is going to come in and figure out what to do with JPJ, then I\u2019m all in on that. Move him to guard, move Linderbaum to center. I\u2019m going to rely on Kolton Miller getting back and healthy\u2026 but I think two [offensive linemen] in free agency would everybody feel a lot better.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"block-12bd3c93-f852-42dd-a3eb-16ecff5fa140\">Linderbaum, who turns 26 in April, has been to three straight Pro Bowls with the Ravens and was ranked as the no. 4 center in the league by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/nfl\/grades\/position\/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pro Football Focus<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-f0cbdbe3-a422-4c4e-931f-94295d15bef2\">Creed Humphrey is currently the <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/position\/center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NFL\u2019s highest paid center<\/a> at $18 million per year, and the expectation is that Linderbaum will get a deal worth at least $20 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>x: <a href=\"HTTPS:\/\/x.com\/raidersbeat\" rel=\"nofollow\">@raidersbeat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders are expected to enter the 2026 season with more than $100 million in salary cap room&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-477478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477478","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=477478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}