The stoneface look Raiders general manager John Spytek sported while preparing for the NFL Draft in the past few months finally faded. No longer paranoid about giving away any information about the team’s player personnel strategy,

Coming into the draft, there were reports that a team in the top ten of the draft was in love with Colorado's Travis Hunter and was eager to trade up for him. That team turned out to the the Jacksonville Jaguars a fifth overall. They traded up with the Browns at pick number two to get Hunter. More on this later...

After he and the Raiders' staff pieced together an 11-player draft class, the largest by the franchise since 2007, Spytek admitted hours spent inside the war room took a toll on him. Over the three-day period,