{"id":114083,"date":"2024-04-21T01:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T01:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=114083"},"modified":"2024-04-21T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T01:49:16","slug":"trade-proposal-has-raiders-deal-aidan-oconnell-to-land-star-qb-nguyensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/trade-proposal-has-raiders-deal-aidan-oconnell-to-land-star-qb-nguyensa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Proposal Has Raiders Deal Aidan O\u2019Connell to Land Star QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1856085263.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"aidan oconnell\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"884\" data-dom-ready-time=\"942\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty\u00a0Las Vegas Raiders QB Aidan O&#8217;Connell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trading up into the top three is proving difficult for the\u00a0Las Vegas Raiders\u00a0so the team needs to consider other options if they want to add a quarterback in the draft. The team likely won\u2019t have a chance to draft Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye but J.J. McCarthy could still be a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Raiders would still need to trade up if they wanted the Michigan star. Bill Barnwell of ESPN pitched a trade that would send\u00a0Aidan O\u2019Connell, the No. 13 pick and the No. 44 pick to the\u00a0New York Jets\u00a0for the No. 10 and No. 111 picks. In this scenario, the Raiders would take McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the cost of a second-round pick, would the Raiders be willing to jump ahead of the Vikings and Broncos to land McCarthy? Neither team has a second-rounder in this draft to match Vegas\u2019 offer,\u201d Barnwell wrote in an\u00a0April 18 column. \u201cThe Vikings have another first-rounder (No. 23), but would they really send it to move up one spot? (The Jets don\u2019t have a second-rounder to send back, either.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this deal, New York GM Joe Douglas would get back a top-50 pick after sending a second-rounder to the Packers in the Rodgers trade last year. The Jets would also get a potential backup for Rodgers in O\u2019Connell, who exceeded expectations in a hopeless situation a year ago. And frankly, while moving down three spots in Round 1, they still might be able to draft the same player they wanted at No. 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Would This Trade Make Sense for Las Vegas Raiders?<\/h2>\n<p>The trade that Bill Barnwell is proposing would make a lot of sense for the Jets. They land a second-round pick, get a capable backup to\u00a0Aaron Rodgers\u00a0and only have to move back three spots.<\/p>\n<p>For the Raiders, they\u2019d be paying a steep price just to move up a few spots to take the fourth-best quarterback in the draft, if he\u2019s even available. Losing Aidan O\u2019Connell wouldn\u2019t be a huge blow if the team added J.J. McCarthy but do the Raiders think he\u2019s that much better than Bo Nix or Michael Penix Jr.? It\u2019s hard to know for sure but Las Vegas hasn\u2019t shown much interest in McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas does need a quarterback but shouldn\u2019t trade too many assets to get a quarterback they aren\u2019t 100% sold on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"e36a5a75de8f6e0bc3af17e8af52019f\">\n<article>THE BEST DRIVE OF THE JIM HARBAUGH ERA<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Las Vegas Raiders Could Get Michael Penix in 2nd-Round<\/h2>\n<p>Another reason why the Raiders shouldn\u2019t trade up for\u00a0J.J. McCarthy\u00a0is the possibility that they can still land a good quarterback in the second round. In a mock draft from Trevor Sikkema of Pro Football Focus, he has\u00a0Michael Penix Jr.\u00a0slipping to the second round where the Raiders select him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenix can attack the intermediate middle of the field, but it is not as natural,\u201d Sikkema wrote in the\u00a0April 20 mock draft.\u00a0\u201cHe also tends to throw with power too much. He can be a tick late on timing his throws, opting to put more juice on passes rather than more air underneath. This lends itself to a lack of consistent ball placement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also opts for the bigger throws and not as many \u2018layups\u2019 even when available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty\u00a0Las Vegas Raiders QB Aidan O&#8217;Connell. Trading up into the top three is proving difficult for the\u00a0Las Vegas Raiders\u00a0so the team needs to consider other options if&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":114084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114086,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114083\/revisions\/114086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}