Raiders tied in Brock Bowers receives an incredible honor after his record-breaking rookie year.

How much better can Brock and this Raiders offense be in 2025?

That plus more on Friday's edition of the Locked-on Raiders podcast for August 22nd, 2025.

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Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome here, Raider Nation, to another edition of the Locked-on Raiders podcast. Thank you so much for making the show, your first listen of the day. Definitely appreciate you. If you're catching the show, wherever you find your fair podcast or you're checking us out by way of the YouTube page, you know we appreciate both. Show continues to grow each and every day because of your consistent support and the great job that my man Ari does behind the scenes, making sure we look good and sound good each and every day. Again, by way of the Lockdown Raider podcast YouTube page. So shout out to Ari. Great job, as always. He's on Twitter at Ari Produces. You can hit me up as well at your boy Q254. And if you want to be a part of the show,

as many of you do, we got the Lockdown Raider podcast voicemail line for you at 707-654-4-4693. You got a ton of calls and text. I'll try to get through as many as possible coming up in segment number three as we close out the show and close out the week. Again, a lot of feedback. I do appreciate all of it.

I'll try to hustle through as much as possible as we close things out.

Segment number two, I want to take a look at preseason games. Again, a lot of feedback. I do appreciate all of it. I'll try to hustle through as much as possible as we close things out.

Segment number two, I want to take a look at preseason game number three

as the preseason is getting wrapped up for the Silver and Black and all teams across the league

and really focus in on who this game is going to be most important for who really needs to step up

and show their worth as well.

The final 53-man roster will come to a conclusion pretty quickly.

They'll come to a decision on their 53-man roster by Tuesday at 1 p.m. Pacific time.

So a lot of positions are already signed, sealed, and delivered.

Can there be a couple more positions that are accounted for coming up on Saturday?

We'll talk about that in segment number two. Here in segment number one, news and notes of the day. Let's go ahead and jump

right into it. And the day on Thursday started with the notification from the NFL that

Brock Bowers, after his rookie year, record-breaking rookie year, was voted number 24 in the NFL

top 100. You could say, okay, so what's the big deal on that? Well, he's already considered a top 25 player in the league, and it's amongst the peers, right? The tight end comes in at number 24, but he was voted on by his colleagues. So that, to me, is a big deal, number one tied in the National Football League. Again, not voted on by me, not voted on by you,

voted on by his colleagues. So that is a really big deal. He was named a pro bowler and

AP first team all-pro after leading all tight-ins and receptions with 112, receiving yards with

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