The Las Vegas Raiders selected defensive tackle Matthew Butler out of Tennessee in the fifth round of the 2022 NFL Draft, and since that time, things haven’t exactly gone to plan for Butler.
He’s played in eight total games for the Raiders, six in his rookie season, and two in the 2023 season. He wants to contribute more than that, but he’s spent quite a bit of time on the Las Vegas practice squad.
Butler said that the primary thing he wants fans to understand about practice squad players is that they do have talent.
“We’re not garbage football players by any stretch of the imagination,” he said in an interview with SB Nation prior to the Super Bowl.