Tom Telesco hinted early on, shortly after he was hired as Las Vegas Raiders general manager, that the team may to take a running-back-by-committee-approach instead having a bell cow back when Josh Jacobs was the unquestioned starter.
Based on the moves Telesco made at tailback, the committee is shaping up.
The Silver & Black’s chief personnel man went about adding more talent to the running back room by brining in veteran Alexander Mattison via free agency, re-upping veteran Ameer Abdullah, and drafting Dylan Laube out of New Hampshire in the sixth round of the 2024 NFL Draft (208th overall).