Before they selected tight end Brock Bowers with the No. 13 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Las Vegas Raiders reportedly had a trade offer on the table from a team looking to move up for the Georgia product.
This comes from Vic Tafur of The Athletic, although he did not say what team was making the offer, nor did he reveal what the actual offer was.
“That’s the plan, along with lining up Bowers out wide and behind the quarterback,” Tafur wrote. “They like Mayer. They just thought they couldn’t pass up on Bowers’ explosiveness, and even turned down a team trying to trade up for him.”
While we don’t know the team for sure, we can make an educated guess that it was the Los Angeles Rams after it was revealed they were trying to trade up to No. 10, and then No. 11 when that didn’t pan out.
According to Ari Meirov of The 33rd Team, Los Angeles offered the New York Jets their first, second and third-round picks in exchange for the No. 11 overall selection and a sixth-rounder. Bowers was the reason behind Los Angeles’ attempt, also.
Whatever the offer was, it clearly wasn’t enough to move Raiders general manager Tom Telesco off taking Bowers, who he was very high on.
