Oakland Raiders: Exploring a few potential Draft Day trade scenarios

Los Angeles Chargers

Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers is still capable of playing at an extremely high level. But, heading into what will be his fifteenth NFL season, Father Time is most definitely hanging over his head like the Sword of Damocles.

The Chargers will need to start thinking about the future at the quarterback spot, and it’s very likely not going to be Cardale Jones or Geno Smith — at least, Chargers fans had best hope it’s not.

Los Angeles is slotted into the seventeenth overall pick in the first-round and moving up those seven spots could help them land a quarterback who can potentially be the future of the team. For the Raiders though, moving back seven spots from their number ten position involves a little more risk of not getting the guy they covet most. Or even, second most.

But, that’s the risk you run when you trade down.

They’ll still get a good player at seventeen though, and if they can pick up the likes of a Maurice Hurst there (he is very likely still on the board at seventeen), an add a little more draft capital, it would be a deal that would have tremendous value.

Again, the Raiders would likely add Los Angeles’ second-round pick (or depending upon how desperate the Chargers are, they could get really creative and send the tenth and perhaps, one of their four sixth-rounders in exchange for Los Angeles’ second and third-rounders).

Again though, for the sake of argument, we’ll just say they wind up with the Chargers’ second-round pick out of the deal.

That would give the Raiders the seventeenth, forty-first, and forty-eighth overall picks.