My Final Mock Draft: Oakland Raiders

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Published: April 24, 2009

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... and on the eve of that day, I present this final (FINALLY) mock for the Oakland Raiders.

Everyone has their reasons for why Player E should be drafted ahead of Player D. This is my mock draft with analysis on why each player should be picked.

1. B.J. Raji - DT - Boston College

Breakdown: The team has been flat out terrible at stopping the run for more of this decade. In fact, the last time we were stout against it was 2002, the year we went to the Super Bowl. Since then, we have been dead last in '03, then 22nd, 25th, 25th, 31st, and 31st. Is this a directly affecting our record? Quite possibly, but we cannot know for sure until it is fixed.

People have this notion that we must have a passing attack and Crabtree must be the guy that's taken. Well we were terrible passing the ball last year, that is a fact, but how much was our lack of success directly associated with our lack of passing? Let's just look back to 2005 when we were 10th i...

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