Breaking Down Every Raiders 2024 UDFA Signing

Las Vegas Raiders signed multiple UDFAs:

QB – Carter Bradley, South Alabama
WR – Jeff Foreman, Arkansas State
WR – Lideatrick Griffin, Mississippi State
WR – Ramel Keyton, Tennessee
TE- Mason Pline, Furman
OT – Andrew Coker, TCU
OG – Jake Johnanning, Furman
C – Clark Barrington, Baylor
C – Will Putnam, Clemson
EDGE – Ron Stone Jr., Washington State
DT – Noah Shannon, Iowa
DT – TJ Franklin, Baylor
DT – Tomari Fox, North Carolina
LB – Amari Gainer, FSU
CB – Demarcus Governor, Northern Iowa
CB – Ja’Quan Sheppard, Maryland
DB – Phalen Sanford, Nebraska
DB – Rayshad Williams, Texas Tech

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so pretty much every single year over
the past few seasons the Raiders have
gotten pretty lucky with some of their
udfas you know guys like Isaiah paulau
guys like DJ Turner or Andre James Alec
inold are just a couple of examples of
players that the Raiders picked up after
the draft that ultimately ended up
having pretty successful NFL careers
obviously most of them are still in the
NFL but this year’s class is interesting
because there’s a group of guys that the
Raiders have brought in and some of them
I’m definitely familiar with and we’re
going to get into this list we’re going
to get into some of these guys now I
won’t pretend to know all of them right
honestly Mason Pine tied end out of
Ferman have never heard of the guy but I
have went and watched some of the tape I
have went and checked some of these guys
out uh and we’re going to talk about it
because there’s definitely some UPS out
with some of these guys now let’s go
ahead and just start at the top of the
list quarterback Carter Bradley out of
South Alabama this guy’s kind of
intriguing to me because uh for four
years he was with Toledo and then for
his final two years he transferred and
went to South Alabama and with Toledo
really wasn’t that good and then with
South Alabama he was all right 47
touchdowns to 19 interceptions the past
two years uh I wouldn’t say that screams
NFL starting caliber quarterback but uh
when he went to the Senior Bowl on the
other hand the guy had a pretty damn
good Senior Bowl right when this guy got
NFL offensive lineman in front of him
and he was throwing to NFL wide
receivers the guy definitely looked a
lot better at the Senior Bowl and I
think Carter Bradley has some upside for
the Raiders now I’m not going to predict
that this guy’s going to be our starting
quarterback or anything like that I
think chances are Gardner muu a and
Connell one of those two guys will start
for the Raiders chances are those two
guys are most likely going to start uh
and I don’t think Carter Bradley’s
probably even going to make the active
roster but uh do keep an eye on this guy
right do kind of keep an eye on him the
Raiders obviously brought him in and
they guaranteed him a pretty big chunk
of money so uh Carter Bradley
interesting name also the son of Gus
Bradley if you guys didn’t know Raiders
former defensive coordinator let’s get
into the receivers cuz I think the
receivers kind of are are a little bit
more interesting now there’s uh there’s
various types of receivers that the
Raiders kind of brought in with these
guys uh so you got an arkinson Arkansas
State wide receiver Jeff Foreman uh he
doesn’t really interest me although I do
find it interesting the guy has 104
career catches for 2,67 yards that’s a
pretty good ratio if you guys ask me um
you know based off the actual receptions
and yards is a pretty solid ratio 13
touchdowns he was definitely a playmaker
at Arkansas State uh but the guys that
really interest me are going to be the
next two guys uh the the next two guys
are L lri Griffin I think he also goes
by latu Griffin don’t quote me on that
um he’s kind of a slot wide receiver
that reminds me not 100% like Hunter rro
but he kind of reminds me of Hunter rro
he’s on the smaller side he’s 510 180 um
he had 126 catches for
1,490 yards and nine touchdowns uh you
know keep in mind the wide receiver
above him for example Jeff Foreman had
way less catches way more yards right
that’s because he’s he’s more of a wide
receiver guy that’s going to catch a 50
yard pass here a 30 yard pass there or
maybe one goes for like 70 yards and it
goes for a touchdown Griffin from
Mississippi state is more so of like a
slot wide receiver he’s a little bit
quicker he’s a little more Shifty but
the thing that sticks out to me is he
has over 1600 kick return yards he has
two touchdowns as well and he R A 439 40
yard dash so Griffin out of Mississippi
state’s kind of an interesting name to
keep an eye on now again we don’t know
which gu is going to actually make the
roster I will give you guys two guys
that I actually really like we’ll talk
about that as we kind of get into these
guys uh Griffin’s interesting because I
think he has upside for the Raiders to
be a playmaker and it’s a position we
don’t have right we don’t have a hun
rent for anymore so Griffin’s a guy to
kind of keep an eye on the Tennessee
wide receivers is very intriguing as
well raal Kon out of Tennessee um 63 210
lbs 63 massive body massive Target uh he
had 86 catches for 1456 11 touchdowns he
ran a 451 which is pretty good for that
size
especially uh it’s kind of all different
right we got one guy that’s kind of like
a big explosive playmaker type wide
receiver you got a SLO guy and you got a
big body guy right so the Raiders are
trying to hit all the different marks
with the three wide receivers we
ultimately have uh and keep in mind you
know generally speaking wide receivers
can can play so many different positions
right they can be your sixth or seventh
wide receiver which they’ll probably
never play but then they also can bring
you special teams value right they can
be on your kick team they can be on your
punt team they can be Gunners on the
punt team specifically um they can be on
kick return or pun return right they can
be the actual Return Man if if not
blocking right so there is a lot of
upside to some of these guys right like
kon’s uh raal Kon out of Tennessee 63 so
he could be a Blocker on kick return or
punt return as well right just depends
where he kind of lines up um kind of an
interesting group of wide receivers that
the Raiders brought in uh tight end
Mason Pine again I’m not going to
pretend to know this guy I did watch his
tape kind of interesting uh you know
we’ll see what ends up happening Raiders
don’t really need tight ends at this
point we have two absolute star tight
ends uh which I’m actually very excited
for the Raiders tight end group I think
we’re going to have such a great set of
tight ends and he might not show right
away because of the quarterback and
where we’re kind of at with that
position but I think over time we’re
going to realize that the our tight ends
are phenomenal Playmakers and they’re
just we’re hard to Guard we’re going to
be like this big crazy team right and
then in four five years if we get
another wide receiver maybe take one in
the first round uh the Raiders should
have a good set of Playmakers going
forward right we should never not have
that let’s get into these offensive
lineman because uh I’ve watched at least
three of these guys right uh we’ll send
we’ll start with Andrew Coker he’s the
one guy that I think has the most upside
for the Raiders uh you know last year I
really like the Dalton Wagner pickup and
I also like the Andrew Coker pickup at a
TCU so we gave him $95,000 which I think
was the third highest guaranteed money
we gave to a a player giving someone
$95,000 as a guarantee you know most of
these guys don’t get guarantees most of
these guys are told you can come you can
try out or or not right um so to give
this and they get paid but it’s not
guaranteed necessarily so you know if uh
Andrew Coker punches someone and he gets
suspended or the Raiders say hey we
don’t want this guy because he has maybe
character concerns or he comes to rookie
mini camps he’s way out of shape they’ll
let him go right away right some of
these guys won’t get paid in that
instance coker’s already guaranteed
$95,000 right uh so here’s what I like
about this guy he’s 67 315 lbs and he
has a ton of experience at right tackle
he’s also played a little bit of left
tackle but he has a ton of experience uh
Coker to me is one guy that do not sleep
on him right do not sleep on this guy
uh we’ll see where Dalton Wagner’s at
after a year right had an entire year to
kind of get right we’ll see where he’s
at Coker we’re going to see what this
guy brings as well you know I’m I’m at
on thir mford I made that very clear
I’ll continue to make that clear unless
mford really comes in and shows me that
he’s way faster he moves way better in
that instance I’ll give him the benefit
of the doubt but at this point Coker
Wagner they’re going to be the competing
guys for our right tackle position
unless we go out and bring someone else
in right so Co is a guy definitely to
keep an eye on I’m pile on him I think
he has a chance to be on the practice
squad if not make the actual roster and
don’t be surprised if he ends up
starting somehow right generally
speaking I don’t think udfas and late
round tackles are guys you want to start
but Coker is an interesting football
player for sure now there are some
concerns with him I had read somewhere
and this was a long time ago so my
memory is probably not 100% right I had
read with him something to the tune of
like maybe he struggles adapting to to
um not scheme but you know maybe he
struggles with a system or struggles
with Advanced things that a coaching a
coach may want to implement um you know
I remember reading a I don’t remember
who the Scout was it may have been Matt
Miller may have been one of these other
guys I remember reading his report and
the report was and this is probably why
he never got drafted was was that maybe
he you know he has some sort of issue
with learning certain things um I hate
saying that because I don’t want people
to run with that that may not even be
fact we don’t know right people put
things out that aren’t true necessarily
we saw the Colts owner come out talking
about the people that talked about
the wide receiver they ended up drafting
I think they took him in like the second
round and they’re like you know this
guy’s super talented and people are
putting all these false reports out
about him um but Coker is definitely an
interesting player and TCU produces some
good offensive lineman over the past
couple of season so keep an eye on him
uh the Ferman guard Jake johanning very
very very interesting football player I
mean this guy to me is the one guy that
I actually have watched as well so Coker
johanning as well as putam at of Clemson
we’ll talk about him here in a second
I’ve watched those three guys before
right and uh the thing with johanning is
he’s a guard so right away you got to
understand guards D aren’t going to get
drafted right so you get guys like
Christian mahogany as an example who
ended up going like the sixth round he’s
probably like a third or fourth best
guard in this class he was a sixth round
pick uh teams are going to draft guys
that could play tackle and then if they
can’t play tackle they’ll move them to
guard and even if as a guard they’re not
Better Than Jake johanning for example
but because they have the potential to
play tackle they’re going to take that
guy right they’ll draft The Tackle and
they won’t draft that guard because
guards are generally easier to find I
know the Raiders at the moment don’t
have a guard but I I think the the the
Raiders in the past have kind of done it
wrong you know you can in the sixth
seventh round you can get guards that
can come in and develop into legit
starting caliber players right but you
just got to bring them in
consistently uh Jake johanning an
interesting thing with him is uh he’s
6’3 he won the 2023 blocking award and
he’s a three-time All-American uh he got
$105,000 guaranteed which is a ton of
money and of course uh the chiefs were
also interested in this guy they
actually brought him in for a top 30
visit so I watch this guy’s tape on tape
he’s quick and he’s strong uh he’ll have
to develop but this guy has upside uh
maybe in 3 years from now if uh if
Jackson power Johnson goes from Right
Guard to Center maybe johanning is the
guy at Right Guard you know who knows um
definitely an interesting football
player uh then there’s a guy that’s not
actually on this list that we also
brought in um his name is Jacob Gideon
out of Western Michigan 62300 lb uh
didn’t really watch his tape but he’s
played left guard Center and Right Guard
so he has snaps on all three of the
positions as an interior offensive line
then he got the two centers Clark
barington and will putam putham is the
guy that I’ve watched a a a ton of in
the past um I’m surprised he wasn’t
drafted but I’m not I guess I’m not
really surprised you know the Florida
Center that I really liked uh Ian
Kingsley or I’m sorry Kingsley Ian uh he
ended up not getting drafted as well he
ended up signing with the Lions as a
udfa now I think he’ll be a starter in
like three years or so but he didn’t get
drafted so I’m not surprised guys like
will putham didn’t get drafted um
centers really aren’t valued that
interior offensive line aren valued that
high I don’t know what it is where teams
just don’t value these guys I don’t know
if it’s because they you know maybe it
doesn’t translate well um but putham is
one of those guys that definitely has
upside he’s played center and guard so
he has the ability to play both
positions uh Clark barrington’s played
guard and Center as well uh barington is
interesting CU he’s like 65 308 pounds
so he’s very tall but he is quick as
hell so it’s going to be interesting
because Tom Tesco definitely likes guys
that are big bigger guys that have size
which is different than ran Slater which
is kind of interesting maybe the
Chargers drafted Slater to be a guard
because he worked out as a tackle just
kind of kept him there uh but it seems
like Tom Tesco definitely wants his
offensive lineman to have certain traits
or qualities that they can kind of bring
in um which I don’t know if that’s
actually a good thing to be honest but
like for example Coker is 67 that’s
that’s something you want in your tackle
um Clark barington 6’5 that’s a center
right or maybe a guard but 65 that’s
just massive football player he’s fast
right he’s like 304 305 pounds will
putam 64 330 he’s stronger right so
you’re bringing in guys that are a
little bit different um but they’re guys
that have upside right um the guy that
we actually give the most guaranteed
money to is Ron Stone Jr at of
Washington State uh Stone Jr is an
interesting football player on tape the
guy definitely has a little bit of Bend
to him uh Stone Jr I would say is one of
the guys to watch Coker is one of the
guys to keep an eye on Ron Stone Jr is
the other guy to kind of keep an eye on
I think Stone Jr is going to actually
make this team like I think is a real
maybe not the actual active roster but I
think he’s going be one of the guys that
makes the practice squad right so keep
an eye on Stone Jr he’s actually I’m
actually excited to watch uh preseason
could not come sooner uh you know uh I
always say this to people for me the
best time of the year is you know the
draft is one of the best times right
maybe like the month leading into the
draft is one of the best times cuz we
get to talk about draft players and
those type of things is different it’s
not really Raider related but it does
impact us um and then the next thing is
to watch when Camp first begins through
preseason right that first preseason
game like I’m so fired up to get that
tape and watch that tape because you get
to watch all the young guys right and to
me that’s the best thing is to be able
to watch your younger football players
right the younger guys on the roster the
you know that fourth round pick that
seventh round pick uh maybe dalon magar
and see where he’s at in your two right
to be able to see that is the most
important thing for me uh or it’s the
best part of the Year for me honestly
and then of course week one week two and
then kind of how you go forward uh but
Ron Stone Jr is the guy to kind of keep
an eye on uh defensive tackle Noah
Shannon is another guy to keep an eye on
this guy’s interesting too right so
we’ll talk about the 3D tackles um the
other two so I’ve watched TJ Franklin in
the past he’s kind of a run Defender uh
he does have a little bit of upside but
tamari Fox same thing um Noah Shannon is
the interesting guy to kind of keep an
eye on the guy had a 68 career pressures
over 100 run stops he had like five six
sacks in college but he got suspended in
2023 so Noah Shannon is one of those
guys and the Raiders have done extensive
research on a lot of these guys I’m sure
Noah Shannon is one of those guys this
guy has upside uh this guy can pass rush
he can run defend he has good size uh
he’s what you want in a defensive tackle
but the big thing is is Will Antonio
Pierce be able to get this guy committed
right cuz he was suspended in
2023 um and that’s going to be the big
thing but this guy definitely has a
little bit of upside and I think for the
Raiders you want upside in your udfas I
think that’s that’s kind of the big
thing uh the other guy that has upside
is uh here actually lists him as a
linebacker but I think he’s more so of a
defensive end he’s not like an inside
linebacker in that sense uh I think he
played more defensive don’t quote me on
that but I I believe he may have um the
guy is 63 240 has good size uh he has 8
and a half sacks four pass breakups 51
pressures um Amari Gainer is a guy to
kind of keep an eye on and I think he’s
technically a linebacker but um he
definitely played on the line of and I
don’t think he actually went to FSU I
think these are actually wrong uh I’m
pretty sure Gainer went to North
Carolina uh maybe I’m confused but I’m
pretty confident in that so uh G I’m
pretty sure went to North
Carolina um he has a little bit of
upside right a little bit of upside
we’ll see if the Raiders use him as a
linebacker or as a pass prusher um I had
seen I think it was ESPN or PFF that put
it out I searched him on Twitter uh he
had an
11.6% uh pass rush win rate right so
we’ll see if he gets lined up as a
defensive then I think he played
linebacker and what it was was they had
like this package I think the Cowboys
did the same thing with uh with what’s
his name the guy that just retired they
had a linebacker that just retired
everybody knows who it is except for me
they would have a package where they put
him on the line and scrimmage he pass
rush and then they put Michael Parsons
as a linebacker and then he’d kind of
move around before he would Blitz
ultimately uh Gainer is a guy that kind
of did that same thing and then he would
line up and he come off the edge as well
so he’s a guy to kind of keep an eye on
um the final four guys um we got a
couple of
Corners Jaquan Shepard’s kind of
interesting as so Shephard was I don’t
know if I stated this before but Shepard
was actually the highest paid person
that got the guarantees $230,000 in
guaranteed money that’s that’s the most
that the Raiders gave out 62 219 pound
I’m sorry 62 202 lbs uh the guy had 19
pass breakups uh he gave up about 40% of
his catches to be completed which is
really really really good uh 62 catches
on
133 uh attempts
81.3 qbr which is pretty solid as well
right for a qbr 81’s really good
actually Jaan Shepard out of Maryland uh
and he is from Maryland so ja joran
Bennett may have known a little bit
about this guy maybe the Raiders asked
him some questions uh Shephard’s going
to be guy to keep an eye on so for me uh
Andrew Coker out of TCU uh Shephard of
course out of Maryland and then of
course Ron Stone JR out of Washington
state those are the three guys to kind
of keep an eye on uh the final guy that
I want want to talk about here is going
to be defensive back ran Williams sorry
R Rashad Williams at Texas Tech uh 64
220 so I don’t you know I don’t his qbr
is not that good 106 qbr he’s gave up 14
touchdowns over the course of his career
so all of that isn’t that good but 64
220 as a defensive back that’s that’s
pretty impressive we’ll see what this
guy can bring to the Raiders uh maybe he
develops a little bit we’ve seen uh
Patrick Graham take Isaiah paulau and
kind of get the most out of him um
that’s definitely going to be something
to kind of keep an eye on there’s two
other Corners listed there fing uh Fon
Sanford out of Nebraska Demarcus
Governor out of Northern Iowa I didn’t
see much from those guys especially the
Northern Iowa guy I didn’t really see
anything from him to be honest with you
guys um but you know we do got a bunch
of udfas I’m sure a couple other guys
could have possibly signed the list
hasn’t been updated here but uh the
thing to keep in mind with udfas you
know again Andre James Isaiah paulau DJ
Turner Al inold um last Cotton was a
udfa there’s so many udfas every year
that make the the actual you know active
roster in fact the NFL is you know
outside of your first second and third
I’m I’m pretty sure outside your first
second third round there’s more UDF
udfas in the NFL than there are like
fourth fifth sixth and seventh round
picks right udfas are going to make the
team yeah there’s like 17 of them we’ve
signed so far you’re going to get five
of these guys to make the team right so
we can look at this list we can look at
the tape some of these guys are going to
make the team and I think for the
Raiders and and even Tom Tesco the most
important thing for a team is the udfas
you bring in you know there is it’s the
cheapest Talent you can possibly bring
in right it’s the cheapest in terms of
cap dollars that you can bring in and
there’s a chance that a guy like Ron
Stone Jr can come in and replace I’m not
saying Malcolm but like you know whoever
our fifth or sixth defensive end may be
right if the Raiders are going to go out
and say hey let’s go pay 3 million
to Cody Whit hair well hey maybe Jake
johanning from fman can replace Cody
whiteh here and instead of playing
whitehair 3 million we can pay this guy
3 million over four years right so it
just makes more sense in that aspect to
be able to hit on these udfas and uh Tom
TCO has been able to hit on some of
these guys in the past now most of these
guys are not going to be superstar
players they not going to be top five at
their position I don’t think any of them
probably are honestly uh usually you’ll
get like one or two udfas a year that
end up being like top 10 guys at their
position
across the league right so maybe the
Raiders have one guy maybe they don’t
but these guys will be on the active
roster these guys will over the next
four to five years provide value right
rotational players backup players
special teams players at the Raiders are
in the Super Bowl in three years there’s
a chance you know Andrew Coker recovers
a fumble right and that helps us win
right or Carter Bradley has to step in
and he throws a touchdown or whatever it
is you know um I’m excited man best time
of the year Year I hope you guys enjoy
this video we’re going to have so much
more content coming as we go forward
we’re going to do some film breakdowns
on some of the guys we drafted and we’ll
also look at guys like Andrew Coker will
putham Ron Stone Jr we’re going to have
a ton of tape coming out over the next
month right I know uh in the past years
generally you know we’re going to get
into rumors at some point uh but for
this cycle I don’t want to try to do
rumors right I want to try to getting
into more tape uh tape does take longer
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