{"id":734851,"date":"2026-06-30T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734851\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:04:10","slug":"raiders-fifth-round-rookie-cornerback-hezekiah-masses-is-in-the-mix-for-a-starting-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734851\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders’ fifth-round rookie cornerback Hezekiah Masses is in the mix for a starting job"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Raiders knew they needed help in the secondary in the 2026 NFL draft, which is why they selected four defensive backs. The last of those four, fifth-round cornerback Hezekiah Masses, is making an early impression.<\/p>\n

Masses is in the mix for a starting outside cornerback job<\/a>, according to Ryan McFadden of ESPN.<\/p>\n

At the Raiders\u2019 minicamp, Masses was alternating first-team reps with Darien Porter, a 2025 third-round pick who started 10 games as a rookie last season. Reporters said Masses looked good in offseason practices that were open to the media.<\/p>\n

Masses played three seasons of college football at FIU before transferring to Cal in 2025, where he was named first-team All-ACC.<\/p>\n

The Raiders also drafted another cornerback, Jermond McCoy, and safeties Treydan Stukes and Dalton Johnson. They\u2019ll have a young secondary this season, and they\u2019ll need those young defensive backs to be ready in a hurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders knew they needed help in the secondary in the 2026 NFL draft, which is why they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-734851","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\/734851","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=734851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}