You can’t really say you didn’t see this coming. For the past ten months this Raiders franchise has been headed for a front office overhaul. Reggie McKenzie tore down this Raiders team from a 3-13 club in 2013 to a playoff team in 2016. Then Gruden came in and stripped it of most of the players who were part of that rebuild including an incredible 18 of McKenzie’s draft picks, leaving just nine active former McKenzie draft picks on the team as of last week.
Among those jettisoned from the team was McKenzie prize pick, Khalil Mack, who had won Defensive Player of the Year in 2016.