Podcast NFL Combine Report No. 2

Our latest Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast features our second 2024 NFL Scouting Combine report.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.--The Las Vegas Raiders are invading the NFL Combine in Indianapolis this week on a hunt to find the next great Silver and Black players.

New General Manager Tom Telesco, Coach Antonio Pierce, and the Silver and Black staff will conduct countless interviews, review hundreds of players, and leave no stone unturned in the vetting process to find talent and those who are the mindset of the new Silver and Black regime.

Our latest Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast episode examines our second update of the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine. We have numerous details about Pierce and what potential players, scouts, coaches and NFL executives say about the Silver and Black.

You can watch the entire podcast above.

The NFL is on notice that the Las Vegas Raiders, under Antonio Pierce and Tom Telesco, are ascending / © Kirby Lee | 2024 Feb 28

I asked General Manager Tom Telesco about the most valuable thing that can come out of the NFL Scouting Combine for him, and his answer was very enlightening.

 "A couple things, one for me, I love being around our guys at the combine," Telesco said. "When I talk about our guys, like our personnel staff, especially right now to get to know them better. So, I spent a lot of time just talking football with all the scouts, all the personnel people. I love that part of it because we're with each other all day long. I've been in some different committee meetings the last couple of days, but starting tomorrow I'll be with our guys every day, so that's a big part of it. The next part of that I'm not a part of, but the medical process is huge, we really need that. I'm not part of that at all, but that's the most important part of the combine. And then all the measurable data that we receive, that's very important to me to have. 

"Do I necessarily have to watch it all the time? Not necessarily. I don't need to see somebody get weighed in and see how tall they are. I don't need to see them do a broad jump, but that data to us is very important as we make decisions. So, those are probably the most important things. The interviews are nice, but in the end in a 15- or 20-minute interview there's not a whole lot of new ground that's broken. Our scouts have already done so much background work on the players, so we already have that information. You get a little feel for their personality, but in the end you need to spend more time with the kids than only 15-20 minutes. So, the interview is nice, but it's not a huge part of it for me." 

The NFL Draft will be held in Detroit, Mich., on April 25-27, 2024. The Las Vegas Raiders currently hold the No. 13 overall pick.

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