To say Maxx Crosby would have been dissatisfied if the Las Vegas Raiders didn’t draft Ashton Jeanty could be an understatement.
Crosby, the two-time All-Professional edge rusher, instructed Jeanty on ‘The Rush’ podcast how upset he was on the considered the Jacksonville Jaguars drafting Jeanty as a substitute of the Raiders.
“I bear in mind this too, proper earlier than the draft, that is just like the day earlier than,” Crosby stated. “I assumed Jacksonville was about to return in and shock everyone as a result of all of the studies begin popping out, however they low-key form of set a smoke display with the entire Travis commerce and every thing like that. However I used to be like if these motherf–kers are available and take him I’ll be mad as f–okay. I’m not going to lie, bro, I used to be getting pissed.”
Brogan Roback, Maxx Crosby’s co-host, vouched for Crosby’s mind-set.
“You’ll suppose that his canine acquired ran over, truly,” Roback stated of Crosby on the time.
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Luckily for Crosby, the Jaguars as a substitute traded up for the second total choose to draft Colorado two-way Heisman winner Travis Hunter, permitting the Raiders, with the sixth choose, to take Jeanty, the Heisman runner-up. Jeanty was the primary operating again chosen and certainly one of solely two backs taken within the first spherical.
Jeanty is predicted to be a part of an offensive makeover in Las Vegas after the hiring of former Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll. Along with drafting Jeanty, the Raiders traded for Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith and employed former NFL and faculty soccer head coach Chip Kelly because the workforce’s offensive coordinator. Kelly, who coached the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, Oregon, and UCLA, most just lately served because the offensive coordinator of the nationwide champion Ohio State Buckeyes.
The Raiders haven’t been to the playoffs in three years, and since then, they’ve gone a mixed 18-33 underneath two head coaches: Josh McDaniels and Antonio Pierce. It has additionally been greater than 20 years for the reason that franchise has received a playoff recreation; the final time the Raiders even acquired previous the Wild Card spherical was once they reached the Tremendous Bowl through the 2002 season.