Raiders draft rewind: Michael Penix or Brock Bowers?

Brock Bowers There was a lot of speculation in the days leading up to last month’s NFL draft that pointed to the Las Vegas Raiders being a likely landing spot for Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. in the first round.

Penix, though, became the story of the draft when the Atlanta Falcons drafted him with the No. 8 overall pick despite the fact that they just gave veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins a massive contract on free agency.

Yet, there as a report that the Raiders were among the teams that tried to trade up for a quarterback with the Falcons at No. 8. Perhaps the target was Penix, Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy (who went No. 11 to the Minnesota Vikings) or Oregon’s Bo Nix (who went to the…