Why Pete Carroll’s Bold Move with Christian Wilkins Could Redefine Raiders’ Future Culture

Inside the Raiders’ front office, that’s known as walking into the league ready to be a professional player. And when it’s a trait of one of your potentially special players, it can create a meaningful image for the team to promote to other incoming players. That’s exactly what the Buccaneers did with Godwin’s example, and it’s expected to carry over with Spytek and his rookie running back.If you’re not going to be playing for us, you’re not going to be sticking around with us.HENDERSON, Nev. — As the Las Vegas Raiders stretched and went through warmups at Friday’s training camp practice, team owner Mark Davis sat more than 50 yards away under a shaded platform. Laid out before him was an ocean of new faces that have come to define his franchise’s latest sweeping reboot — from the majority of his retooled coaching staff, his new starting quarterback, a first-time general manager, to more than 40 new players threading through the training camp depth chart.The Raiders would like to thread the Wilkins release through that needle, too. Rather than reminding the fan base and critics of the litany of free-agent signing mistakes and trade blunders that played a part in scuttling past regimes, the coaching staff and front office wants the decisions made and work from this camp to punctuate the foundation that’s getting constructed.

The Raiders would like to thread the Wilkins release through that needle, too. Rather than reminding the fan base and critics of the litany of free-agent signing mistakes and trade blunders that played a part in scuttling past regimes, the coaching staff and front office wants the decisions made and work from this camp to punctuate the foundation that’s getting constructed.

The Raiders would like to thread the Wilkins release through that needle, too. Rather than reminding the fan base and critics of the litany of free-agent signing mistakes and trade blunders that played a part in scuttling past regimes, the coaching staff and front office wants the decisions made and work from this camp to punctuate the foundation that’s getting constructed.

The Raiders would like to thread the Wilkins release through that needle, too. Rather than reminding the fan base and critics of the litany of free-agent signing mistakes and trade blunders that played a part in scuttling past regimes, the coaching staff and front office wants the decisions made and work from this camp to punctuate the foundation that’s getting constructed.

[Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season]For the Raiders, Wilkins became that when the team demanded for months some kind of cogent plan — most likely involving surgery — to get him back into the fold and playing football. The Raiders’ brass didn’t see that materializing, and that ultimately ended the relationship between a hopeful building block and the brain trust neither signed him nor saw him play a single snap in 2025.Advertisement