Has D.J. Hayden suddenly become an upper-level NFL player?
There are certainly cases being made for it. Some league observers have ranked Hayden among the best slot cornerbacks in the NFL and have even made pushes for Hayden on NFL top-100 lists. The Associated Press has backed that talk up with numbers.
Opinions are just that, but these statistics do prove that Hayden, now with his third team, the Jacksonville Jaguars, is playing well.
It has to be both shocking and a bit unsettling for Raiders fans to digest this news.