With less than a week away from the start of the NFL draft, I'll give my expectations for the silver and black.

And another NFL draft analyst talks about what he thinks the Raiders will do in the first couple rounds.

That plus more on Friday's edition of the Locked On Raiders podcast for April 17th, 2026.

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707-654-4-6-9-3 as we normally do. We'll close out the show hearing from you. Calls, text, a lot of great feedback. We'll close out the show. Close out the week. Hearing from you. Calls and text, segment number three. Segment number two, I mentioned on Thursday that we didn't have a squad show because I had to be on the conference call with Mel. Kiper Jr. NFL draft analyst from ESPN. Really good stuff. One hour long, one hour strong. We'll go over his two-round mock draft for the Silver and Black. You'll hear his explanation. Plus, you'll talk about a couple other position groups as well. We'll do that all in segment number two.

Here is segment number one.

I like to call it the news and notes of the day, but really it just has to do with my expectations for next week's draft and what I'm hoping the Silver and Black come out of that draft with. So let's go ahead and jump right into it. And, you know, I went over on Thursday show. I went over Dame Bruegler from the athletic.

His seven round mock draft that he put out for all 32 teams.

Obviously, all we're focusing on is what the Raiders are going to come away with. And according to Dan Brugler, I thought he did a really good job. Fernando Mendoza, number one overall, Caden McDonald, defensive tackle at Ohio State, number 36, Eliza Surrett, why receiver from Indiana, number 67, Malik Muhammad,

cornerback from Texas 102, Camari Ramsey, safety out of USC at 117,

Jude Bowery, offensive tackle, Boston College, 134, Keegan Tross, Guard from Missouri

at 175, Nadami Tucker, Edge from Western Michigan, 185,

Colin Wright, cornerback from Stanford at 208,

and Trace Mack, the kicker from Florida at 219.

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