This year’s Famous Idaho Potato Bowl features two schools with a few alumni who play or played for the Oakland or Las Vegas Raiders in recent years. Maxx Crosby was the Raiders’ fourth-round pick out of Eastern Michigan in 2019, and former San Jose State Spartans Keith Smith and James Jones spent brief stints with the Silver and Black.
As far as today’s game goes, there aren’t a ton of NFL Draft prospects but there is a battle in the trenches that Raider Nation should pay attention to. Below is a look at the top 400 draft prospects from each school according to NFL Mock Draft Database’s consensus big board.