{"id":114782,"date":"2024-04-24T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=114782"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:48:52","slug":"raiders-predicted-as-trade-destination-for-angry-demoted-star-rb-nguyensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/raiders-predicted-as-trade-destination-for-angry-demoted-star-rb-nguyensa\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders Predicted as Trade Destination for \u2018Angry\u2019 Demoted Star RB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1672266296-1-e1713954895622.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Raiders potential trade target Dameon Pierce\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"36\" data-dom-ready-time=\"42\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty\u00a0Raiders potential trade target Dameon Pierce<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you watched the last quarter of the 2023 season, it might not be a huge surprise to find that theRaiders\u00a0were willing to part ways with running back\u00a0Josh Jacobs, who was injured for the final four games of the year in a capper to a mostly disappointing season. A year after leading the NFL in yardage, Jacobs came back with just\u00a0805 yards rushing in 13 games,\u00a0as the Raiders offense struggled for most of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if you listened to coach Antonio Pierce profess his admiration for Jacobs on a weekly basis, the fact that the team let him walk is, indeed, a surprise. Pierce vowed to make Jacobs and the running game his focus. But in those final four games, something else happened\u2014second-year man\u00a0Zamir White\u00a0emerged, posting 397 rushing yards from Weeks 15-18. Thus, Jacobs is gone and White is the man entering 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Still, White is a fourth-round pick who is still an unknown commodity. The Raiders backed him up with Vikings free agent\u00a0Alexander Mattison, but still could use another option to back up White or even challenge him for the starting role. And at Pro Football Focus, they have an ideal way to do that: A trade for Texans back\u00a0Dameon Pierce.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Dameon Pierce Struggled After Breakout With Texans<\/h2>\n<p>Dameon Pierce seemed to establish himself as a potential star when he was a rookie, as he rushed for a\u00a0respectable 939 yards in 13 games, averaging 4.3 yards per carry. His 2022 season, though, ended when he suffered an ankle injury that held him out of the final four games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce totaled four rushing touchdowns and added 165 yards receiving out of the backfield, with another touchdown. The Texans appeared prepared to make him a key part of the offense in 2023, but he lost out on carries to free-agent signing\u00a0Devin Singletary.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce is only 24 years old. He should still have some gas in the tank.<\/p>\n<p>But last season, he took a strange step backward. Pierce averaged only 2.9 yards per carry and played only 32% of the team\u2019s snaps. Given his otuh and past success, though, he is a prime trade candidate for teams that don\u2019t land the running back they want in the draft this week.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Marcus Mosher wrote at PFF: \u201cThe Texans have since added\u00a0Joe Mixon\u00a0and rewarded him with a new contract. He will be their starter in 2024 and beyond, but it wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see the Texans draft a running back with some speed to complement him. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily for Pierce, this is a pretty weak running back class, and there could be a handful of teams looking for a competent starter in the trade market. Teams in need of a starting-caliber running back could be interested in flipping a late Day 3 pick for Pierce, who best fits a gap scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Raiders Likely to Add a Running Back<\/h2>\n<p>The Raiders have a number of holes to fill in the upcoming draft, and it would make sense if they used a late-round pick on a running back to add some depth to the RB room. But Pierce, who runs to contact and won the 2022 \u201cAngry Run of the Year\u201d given by the Good Morning Football show on NFL Network, might be a better alternative.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5429848\/2024\/04\/22\/raiders-mock-draft-2024-quinyon-mitchell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">\u00a0seven-round mock<\/a>\u00a0for the Raiders has them landing Washington\u2019s Dillon Johnson in the seventh round, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raiders.com\/news\/rhett-lewis-nfl-2024-7-round-raiders-mock-draft-detroit-april-25-michael-penix-max-melton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Raiders.com\u2019s seven-rounder<\/a>\u00a0has the Raiders with Ray Davis from Kentucky in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/raiderswire.usatoday.com\/lists\/raiders-7-round-mock-draft-las-vegas-get-their-qb-and-his-blindside-protector-1-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Raiders Wire<\/a>\u00a0has the team landing Marshall\u2019s former NCAA-leader Rasheen Ali in the sixth round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty\u00a0Raiders potential trade target Dameon Pierce If you watched the last quarter of the 2023 season, it might not be a huge surprise to find that theRaiders\u00a0were&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":114783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114784,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114782\/revisions\/114784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}