Oakland Raiders: Preseason Week 2 — Stock Up/Stock Down

After the Oakland Raiders second preseason win in a row against the Arizona Cardinals, which players made a case for a spot or bigger role and which players made a case to be cut?

The Oakland Raiders captured their second preseason win in a row Thursday night against the Arizona Cardinals 33-26 in a mostly dominating fashion despite the ending score being close.

The first-team offense played the first drive of the game unlike last week and scored on that drive. The team as a whole looked a lot more consistent than last week, especially on offense.

Like last week, the receiving group shined as did the first-team defense which played about four series against the Cardinals first-team offense.

That offense would end up scoring a grand total of zero points by the time quarterback Kyler Murray was replaced and the backups came in with about seven minutes left in the second quarter.

However, the defense did end up bending later in the game mostly due to blown coverages and some beautiful passes from backup quarterback Brett Hundley.

All in all, the game was mostly positive for the Raiders, though there were still players who disappointed. So let’s go over whose stock has gone up and gone down as a result of their Week 2 performance.

Stock Up: Mike Glennon, QB

Last week’s inconsistent performance from the backup quarterback — where he threw two ill-timed interceptions as well as underthrew a couple of should-be touchdown passes — wasn’t one to be remembered.

But Mike Glennon finished this one with a perfect passer rating going 11-for-14 with 175 yards and two touchdown passes, including a 53-yarder to wide receiver Rico Gafford.

We saw flashes of his accuracy last week where he did make a couple of nice touch passes, and he made another beautiful touchdown pass this week putting it right where tight end Derek Carrier could easily pull it in over the defensive back in the corner of the end zone.

Glennon did miss a wide-open Darren Waller in the end zone on his first possession, which is a tall task considering Waller is 6-foot-6. But he more than made up for it the rest of the game and showed why he is currently the second string over Nathan Peterman.

Peterman went 8-for-8 himself, but he only averaged 5.0 yards per attempt and isn’t capable of pushing it downfield as Glennon is. Another couple of performances like this from Glennon and Raiders fans should feel a lot better about their backup quarterback situation as compared to recent years.