Fight for and earn your job. The result of that is the eventual starter and backup pushing one another to the limit and making each other better. That competition builds all-important depth.
That’s the ideal state for Las Vegas Raiders general manager Dave Zielger.
“In terms of what we’re looking for in the draft, free agency, really the entire team. I would say what we’re looking at doing is to build depth and competition,” the Silver & Black’s new chief personnel man said during media availability at the NFL Combine on Wednesday. “I think that’s a really important part of team building.