The Raiders have been the ultimate coaching carousel in recent history. The team hasn’t had the same head coach in consecutive full seasons since Jon Gruden captained the ship in 2019 and 2020 (and, not that it applies to on-field results, those two seasons didn’t even share a home city). Since then, it was Gruden and Rich Bisaccia in 2021, Josh McDaniels in 2022, McDaniels and Antonio Pierce in 2023, Pierce in 2024, and the now-departed Pete Carroll in 2025. Enter Klint Kubiak. The Raiders hired Kubiak this offseason after he has bounced around the last few years — offensive coordinator in Minnesota in 2021, pass-game coordinator in Denver in 2022 and San Francisco in 2023, OC in New Orleans in 2024 and Seattle in 2025. He won the Super Bowl with the Seahawks last year and had the fantasy world agog with the Saints the year before prior to the team getting hit with a massive wave of injuries. No head coach is a guarantee — just look three paragraphs up for evidence. But Kubiak is a 39-year-old seen as something of a wunderkind, and the Raiders landed him this offseason. We’ll see if he can break the string of futility for the franchise — in addition to the coaching carousel, the Raiders haven’t won their division or won a playoff game since 2002 and only have two Wild Card berths since. Something’s gotta give eventually.In our transaction tracker from the start of free agency, when the Nailor signing came down, the blurb ended with “Translation: The Raiders aren’t done at receiver.” That was because, while Nailor was a nice little WR3 for Minnesota last year, Nailor is a four-year veteran who just passed 1,000 career yards in Week 15 last year, and for a team with as barren a receiver room as the Raiders had, he certainly couldn’t be the final addition. Well, all the Raiders really added after that were free agent Dareke Young (6 targets in four years; he’s a return man) and sixth-round rookie Malik Benson who never had a 750-yard season in college. So, uh, our blurb was a little wrong. It appears the Raiders are rolling into the season with a top-four at receiver, in some order, of Nailor, Tre Tucker and second-year receivers Dont’e Thornton Jr. and Jack Bech. Bech and Thornton combined for 30 receptions on 59 targets for 359 yards and 0 touchdowns last year (Thornton had a 33.3% catch rate). Tucker had one monster game, 40.9 points in Week 3 that was the 10th-best single game of the season last year. And that was more than a quarter of his season-long fantasy points — he scored two touchdowns all season outside of that game and never topped 70 yards otherwise. Nailor is a slot guy, running more than half (55.8%) of his routes out of the slot last year per FTN Stats & Charting. And having him line up in the slot allows Brock Bowers to be out wide as the de facto WR1 (the Michael Mayer experience has not worked out). So Bowers it the obvious No. 1 pass catcher in Las Vegas in 2026, but the team appears to have s
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