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The Las Vegas Raiders just got shut out. They’re second-to-last in the NFL with 14.7 points per game. And their top wide receiver still wants out.
Jakobi Meyers requested a trade just before the season. The organization didn’t honor that request, nor did it give him a new deal.
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Meyers, who’s in the final year of his three-year, $33 million contract, was asked Tuesday about the league’s Nov. 4 trade deadline.
“I got no control over that,” he said, per ESPN’s Ryan McFadden. “If I’m here, I’m here.”
When asked if he still wants to be traded, Meyers was honest.
“Oh, for sure,” Meyers said, via ESPN. “But I’m a professional at the end of the day. I’m just trying to play good football. If I’m here, I’ll play good football.
“If I’m not here, I’ll go out there and play wherever I’m supposed to be.”
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There hasn’t been much good football in Las Vegas this season. The Pete Carroll era is off to a 2-5 start. Offensive coordinator Chip Kelly is struggling in his return to the NFL after helping Ohio State win a national championship last season. Quarterback Geno Smith hasn’t translated the success he had with the Seattle Seahawks to the offense Kelly’s calling in Vegas.
Running back Ashton Jeanty, a Boise State phenom and last year’s runner-up for the Heisman Trophy, has averaged fewer than 4 yards per carry in all but two games. Tight end Brock Bowers, a first-team All-Pro as a rookie in 2024, has been hampered and, recently, sidelined by a knee injury.
During an offseason of change, Meyers was a key piece of the Raiders’ roster that ultimately remained the same. His production, however, has not.
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Last season, Meyers led all Vegas wideouts with 87 receptions and 1,027 receiving yards. He found the end zone four times.
In six games this season, Meyers has logged 29 receptions and 329 receiving yards. He’s still looking for his first touchdown.
Meyers’ numbers, though, are a byproduct of a reeling offensive unit. It doesn’t help that he missed last week’s 31-0 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs because of knee and toe injuries that he picked up in a win over the Tennessee Titans the previous week.
He expects to be available for a Week 9 matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Meyers, according to ESPN, said he hasn’t brought up his trade request recently.
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“[The Raiders] know how I feel,” Meyers said Tuesday, per ESPN. “It’s no reason for me to keep going back crying to them, ‘Can you get me out of here?’
“If you move me, you move me. But in the meantime, I got some real people that I care about next to me, so I’m trying to make sure I’m being my best self for them.”
Meyers signed with the Raiders in 2023 after four seasons with the New England Patriots, with whom he started his career as an undrafted free agent out of North Carolina State.
The soon-to-be-29-year-old Meyers is set to become a free agent after this season.
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