{"id":114946,"date":"2024-04-25T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=114946"},"modified":"2024-04-25T16:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:23:39","slug":"raiders-could-add-impressive-playmaking-son-of-team-legend-nguyensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/raiders-could-add-impressive-playmaking-son-of-team-legend-nguyensa\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders Could Add \u2018Impressive\u2019 Playmaking Son of Team Legend"},"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-1739530486-e1714057186648.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Raiders potential draftee Brenden Rice\" width=\"780\" height=\"436\" data-dom-ready-time=\"369\" data-img-load-time=\"1156\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty\u00a0Raiders potential draftee Brenden Rice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jerry Rice is obviously remembered more for his days leading the\u00a0NFL\u00a0in receiving and winning Super Bowls with the 49ers than he is for his end-of-career stint with the\u00a0Raiders, but make no mistake\u2014he was an excellent Raider in his time with the team. In fact,\u00a0Rice\u2019s 1,211 yards\u00a0in 2002 still ranks\u00a010<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0all-time\u00a0on the franchise\u2019s single-season receiving chart.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with this weekend\u2019s NFL draft looming, Rice\u2019s son, Brenden Rice, is preparing to enter the league after a four-year collegiate career.\u00a0And at Raiders.com, there is some hope he winds up joining his father in the silver-and-black.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Rice, team writer Levi Edwards said he could foresee the team adding him as an X receiver to the team\u2019s stable of wideouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly believe Brenden Rice is one of the more underrated players in this class \u2026\u201d Edwards wrote on the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike his Hall of Fame father, he has great route-running abilities and ball-tracking skills. He\u2019s also an inch taller and nearly 10 pounds heavier than his father during his playing days. He also ran a 40-yard dash .2 seconds faster than his father. The Raiders currently have only five receivers on their roster, and I think Rice would be an impressive Day 2 or 3 addition.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Brenden Rice Racked Up 12 TDs in 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Rice caught\u00a045 passes for 791 yards\u00a0last season for USC, scoring 12 receiving touchdowns, which ranked tied for\u00a0No. 9 in all of college football. He is not the nuanced, precision player that his father was as a receiver (no one is), but is a more physical player at 6-foot-2, 208 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>He was solid at the NFL combine, even if he did not drastically improve his stock. Rice ran a\u00a04.50 40-yard dash, which was 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0out of 30 wide receivers.<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0The 33<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Team\u2019s scouting report: \u201cRice clearly has traits that will transition effectively to the next level, but his 2023 tape strongly suggests the kind of receiver who will be team and scheme-specific. Rice has excellent size and physical and competitive toughness to his play, but he is not a sudden or explosive athlete, which consistently showed up on tape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was featured significantly in USC\u2019s offense in 2023 as the boundary X, which demands that you separate and win vs. man coverage as a foundation of the position. Still, there will be legitimate questions as to whether Rice can do that at the next level vs. quality corners.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Raiders WRs Need Serious Help<\/h2>\n<p>Now, to be clear, Brenden Rice does not have the talent level of his father. Not close.<\/p>\n<p>He is on an almost mirror-image trajectory as his dad. Where Jerry Rice was an overlooked prospect who played for Mississippi Valley State in college, but was impressive enough to warrant a first-round spot in 1985, Brenden Rice spent two years at Colorado before\u00a0transferring to USC\u2014two blue-blood football powerhouses\u2014for his final two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>And it might be a nice bit of symmetry if their careers were opposite reflections in another way\u2014with Brenden Rice starting his career in the place that Jerry Rice effectively ended his (half-season in Seattle notwithstanding).<\/p>\n<p>Edwards pointed out, the Raiders only have five receivers on the roster as things stand, and two of those\u2014Kristian Wilkerson and DJ Turner\u2014did not catch a single pass last year. The work was all done by\u00a0Davante Adams,\u00a0Jakobi Meyers\u00a0and\u00a0Tre Tucker.\u00a0There is certainly room for additions in that group.<\/p>\n<p>Rice could well make an ideal one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty\u00a0Raiders potential draftee Brenden Rice Jerry Rice is obviously remembered more for his days leading the\u00a0NFL\u00a0in receiving and winning Super Bowls with the 49ers than he is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":114947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114946","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\/114946","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=114946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114948,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114946\/revisions\/114948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}