Mike Mayock took the media stand at the NFL scouting combine for the first time as general manager of the Oakland Raiders Wednesday. During which he looked poised and confident.
The longtime draft analyst for NFL Network has taken the role head-on in his first year as an NFL general manager, and will be tasked with turning around a Raiders team that finished 4-12 and last in the AFC West. After a promising 2016 season, that landed the team in the playoffs, the team slipped back to the last place in 2018, and had to deal with seeing generational talent Khalil Mack traded right before the year began.