Free agency in the NFL has slowed down to a crawl, but the Raiders still have a few significant needs on the roster. One of those needs is at cornerback and The Athletic‘s Vic Tafur talked this week about a veteran cornerback that could soon be in the mix.
“You do hear [talk about] Richard Sherman,” Tafur said on the State Of The Nation podcast. “I still think that is still a possibility. I think he is kind of going at his own speed. I think there was a tweet that he’s in Vegas right now, at a casino, at a pool party, so he’s nearby. I think they’ve talked to him… so [that] definitely could be a match. I think he could definitely play right away so that’s the one guy that may happen before long.”
Sherman turned 33 last month, but he is familiar with defensive coordinator Gus Bradley’s system and 100 percent on the Raiders radar.
The Raiders aren’t in desperate need of a starting cornerback, but nothing about the 2020 season screams that they are set at the position, either. Trayvon Mullen was up and down as a player and Damon Arnette was mostly down. If nothing else, a player like Sherman would add a capable veteran to the Raiders’ cornerback group and it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if he was able to beat out one of the aforementioned cornerbacks for a full-time role.
For what it’s worth, Sherman would have been the Raiders top-graded cornerback in each of the last three years, based on Pro Football Focus analytics. That shouldn’t come as a huge surprise since the Raiders top season grade at cornerback in 2020 came from Nevin Lawson (narrowly over Mullen) and the team already had a rich history of terrible cornerback play in the years before that.
So by all means, if Sherman is open to joining the Raiders… sign him up yesterday.
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