Raiders-Jets trade idea ends with Fernando Mendoza drafted not to Las Vegas
The odds of this aren't particularly high.
Raiders-Jets trade idea ends with Fernando Mendoza drafted not to Las Vegas originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Las Vegas Raiders are almost certainly going to use the No.
1 overall pick in this month's NFL Draft to take Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza. But what if they don't? That's the question posed by ESPN's Bill Barnwell in his new trade-filled mock draft.
Barnwell operates under the premise for this exercise that each pick will be traded, and he explores what such a deal might look like. In this case, he suggests the Raiders could trade the first pick for Nos. 2, 33 and 103.
"If you've been reading this piece over the past few years, you know I'm perpetually apologizing at the first overall pick," Barnwell writes. "In most drafts, the first overall selection is a promising young quarterback going to a team that desperately needs one. That team is never going to trade out of that pick, which makes a conceit that's already hypothetical even more preposterous.