There is a clear trend (with one glaring exception) in this year’s Raiders’ free-agent class – youth.
Thus far, the Raiders — whose salary-caps space is dwindling, but will surely still add in the second-and-third waves of free agency — have added eight players in free agency.
The average age of the eight players is 27.8 and that includes tight end Jason Witten, who’ll soon be 38.
Here are the ages of each player on opening day, which should be September 13, in the order they were agreed upon with:
LB Nick Kwiatkowski 27
TE Jason Witten 38
This is clearly by design.