3. WR Henry Ruggs III
General manager Mike Mayock said plainly on several occasions that the Raiders needed speed on the outside. There was no reason for him to beat around the bush because… I mean… duh.
What many people didn’t surmise was just how serious he was with regard to the need for speed. With Ruggs, he gets plenty of that. More than any receiver in this draft by a considerable margin.
While I personally would put Ruggs as the third-best receiver in this draft behind CeeDee Lamb and Jerry Jeudy, there’s no question the Raiders had to get one of these three. They chose Ruggs and now we see if they were right.
Regardless of any draft grades or future projections, the Raiders got the speed they needed and he will be an instant starter and should stretch the field the way they had hoped Antonio Brown would before he went and ruined his career.
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