Aidan O’Connell Named Raiders’ QB1 over Gardner Minshew for NFL Week 6 vs. Steelers
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Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce offered Tuesday that Aidan O’Connell could be the starting up quarterback for the team’s Week 6 game in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
O’Connell replaced Gardner Minshew halfway thru the Raiders’ 34-18 loss to the Denver Broncos. He went 10-of-20 for 94 yards and an interception.
The QB change could assign to be a lateral trek.
O’Connell’s forgettable exhibiting in opposition to the Broncos wasn’t an outlier. In 13 appearances, he has performed 61.9 percent of his passes while throwing for 2,394 yards, 13 touchdowns and eight interceptions.
There used to be a cause the Raiders signed Minshew and made him the starter from the outset. Pierce got a protracted gain a study O’Connell excellent season and clearly wasn’t all that impressed.
The 26-twelve months-previous could a minimal of soundless gain some theoretical upside since he is easiest into his 2d twelve months within the NFL. With Minshew, in distinction, you know exactly what you’re getting. He is factual to gain as a backup but is no longer if truth be told a starting up-caliber quarterback within the NFL.
Better than anything else, Wednesday’s trek symbolizes how the Raiders are treading water and must soundless presumably trek the full near with a rebuild.
Neatly-known individual broad receiver Davante Adams is angling for an exit. The future of defensive halt Maxx Crosby is the self-discipline of hypothesis as smartly. Defensive contend with Christian Wilkins, who’s within the indispensable twelve months of his $110 million contract, excellent underwent surgical treatment on his foot. The Raiders’ 2-3 narrative could be impartial a minute flattering given what’s unfolding in Sin Metropolis.
That is shaping as much as be a lost season and the franchise is sure to live stuck in impartial till the offseason, when it either lands a confirmed starter at quarterback or thinks more future and hitches its wagons to a rookie.
