HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders have fired basic supervisor Tom Telesco after one season, the staff introduced Thursday.
The transfer comes two days after the staff fired coach Antonio Pierce after his first full season because the staff’s coach.
“We recognize [Telesco’s] efforts in serving to construct a basis for the longer term. We want Tom and his household all the most effective,” the staff mentioned in a press release.
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The Raiders completed 4-13 this season, hampered by an unsettled quarterback state of affairs. Telesco signed Gardner Minshew, giving him a two-year, $25 million contract with $15 million assured. Minshew started the season because the starter however was benched in favor of Aidan O’Connell after 5 video games. Each Minshew and O’Connell handled accidents throughout the season, forcing the staff to additionally begin Desmond Ridder.
The Raiders employed Telesco, 52, final January, doing so lower than six weeks after he and coach Brandon Staley have been fired by the Los Angeles Chargers following a 63-21 loss to Las Vegas.
Telesco, employed partly for his success in drafting, nailed the Raiders’ prime three picks final spring.
He went with the most effective participant obtainable, moderately than choosing to fill a necessity, with the No. 13 decide and chosen tight finish Brock Bowers, who set an NFL rookie single-season receiving document with 112 catches and was named to the Professional Bowl.
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Within the second spherical, Telesco drafted offensive lineman Jackson Powers-Johnson, who began video games at left guard and at middle.
And within the third spherical, Telesco took DJ Glaze, who settled right into a beginning position at proper deal with, which had been the Raiders’ prime place of want coming into the draft.
Accidents wreaked havoc with the Raiders’ roster this season as, per the staff, 31.8% of Las Vegas’ Week 1 starters frolicked on injured reserve (tied for the best share within the league) and, with the second-youngest roster within the NFL (common age was 25 years, 344 days), 37.6% of the snaps performed have been by first- or second-year gamers (the third-highest mark within the league).
The Raiders, below Telesco and Pierce, endured a 10-game shedding streak, their longest skid since opening the 2014 season 0-10.
Las Vegas additionally went 0-6 towards the AFC West for the primary time since 2006.
The brand new GM-coach combo will inherit the No. 6 decide in addition to a further third-round draft selection from the New York Jets as a part of the Davante Adams commerce.
The brand new GM and coach will presumably work with new Raiders minority house owners Tom Brady and Richard Seymour, each of whom purchased into the franchise, owned by Mark Davis, within the fall.
Additionally, the Raiders’ new GM is projected to have $107.3 million in wage cap house and a slew of choices to make on in-house free brokers, together with edge rushers Ok’Lavon Chaisson and Malcolm Koonce, linebackers Robert Spillane and Divine Deablo, cornerback Nate Hobbs, safeties Marcus Epps and Tre’von Moehrig, and working backs Alexander Mattison and Ameer Abdullah.
The Raiders have a bunch of head-coaching interviews lined up within the wake of Pierce’s firing, together with Pete Carroll, who will interview with the staff subsequent week, a supply instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday.
