General Manager Dave Ziegler Talks About Raiders LB Room

Las Vegas Raiders General Manger Dave Ziegler talks about the linebacker room and overall talent the room brings to the defense.

Undoubtedly, the Las Vegas Raiders have a very talented linebacker room.

The Raiders spent this offseason by adding more talented linebackers to the room. One of those linebackers is Robert Spillane, who signed with the Raiders this offseason after spending many seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Raiders also have linebackers returning to the team, like Divine Diablo, Luke Masterson, and Curtis Bolton.

With Raiders training coming over, we still do not know who will end up in the linebacker room and on the 53-man roster.

Raiders General Manager Dave Ziegler had the opportunity to share his impressions with the media on the Raiders' very competitive linebacker group.

"It's a competitive group," Ziegler said. "We like the group that we have at linebacker. They all have a little bit of a different skill set. Robert [Spillane] has come in from Pittsburgh and been a guy who has been as advertised. In a lot of ways, I think he's exceeded some expectations, just in terms of his ability to run the defense, his ability in pass coverage, his athleticism, some of the things that you don't always know on film until you see him on the grass and you feel it and see him moving around. So, he's done a good job. Divine [Deablo] has taken another step that we're excited about. And then we have Luke [Masterson], who's again another guy who has grown. Amari [Burney] has showed up a little bit in pass coverage and things like that. Curtis Bolton was a guy who developed as a disruptive kicking game player for us a year ago and really led those units, and he's taken another step. And Drake Thomas was all over the field the other night in the Rams game, racking up tackles and things of that nature. And [Kana'i] Mauga, who we brought back, and he goes out he shows up in the kicking game. And so it's a young, energetic, high-energy group that we feel like their skill sets play off each other, and they fill some different roles. And so it's a group we're excited to continue to work with." 

The Silver and Black open the regular season at the Denver Broncos on Sunday, September 10, at 4:25 p.m. EDT/1:25 p.m. PDT.

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