A former top-10 pick chosen two Raider regimes ago, Tyree Wilson will not play for Klint Kubiak. The Raiders are trading the fourth-year edge rusher to the Saints, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo report.
The Raiders will receive No. 150 from the Saints in exchange for Wilson and a seventh-round pick (No. 219 overall), Rapoport adds. New Orleans will now decide on Wilson’s fifth-year option, which was not expected to be exercised by Las Vegas.
With the 150th pick, the Raiders are selecting safety Dalton Johnson, reuniting him with Arizona teammate and second-round pick (No. 38 overall) Treydan Stukes. Las Vegas has now rebuilt a room that entered the draft with just two players: Jeremy Chinn and Isaiah Pola-Mao. Both started for the Raiders in 2025, but they only have one year remaining on their contracts. Stukes will have a role right away, and in a rebuilding year, the team may also give Johnson some playing time to see what he can do and how he can develop.
New Orleans was in the Kayvon Thibodeaux market, with Rapoport indicating the team spoke with the Giants on the former No. 5 overall pick. But with New York not budging on compensation, the Saints moved on and will add Wilson. The latter has not shown comparable form to Thibodeaux, but the draft pedigree is similar. The Raiders chose Wilson seventh overall out of Texas Tech in 2023.
Wilson has never gotten close to living up to that billing. He has just seven career sacks with never more than two in a single season. He has been more productive against the run with 22 tackles for loss, including 10 in the last two years.
The 25-year-old will add depth to the Saints’ stable of edge rushers, which currently lacks proven talent outside of Chase Young and Carl Granderson. Despite having the size to flip to the interior as a pass rusher, Wilson has rarely been used in that role. His new defensive coordinator Brandon Staley could attempt to unlock some versatility to get more production out of the 6-foot-6, 275-pound defender.
Oooof. Didn’t think it was a smart pick at the time, but I didn’t think it would work out THIS badly.
It’s cool. Y’all signed Kwity Paye. Replaced 1 draft bust with another draft bust.
Y’all? I’m not a Raiders fan. But Paye has been a perfectly decent starter and was taken 21st overall. Wilson has been a disaster for how high he was taken.
As a Raider fan I approve of Oooofs message. Facts.
Paye was more than solid before the injuries.
another draft bust.
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I see no similarities between Wilson and Paye.
I don’t see Kwity as a bust…not a star but not a bust either
Very slow processor which makes him look robotic out there. Only has a bull rush. Hope he finds success but he won’t ever live up to the hype. Good luck
I like the McCoy & Washington picks on Day 3. Not so sure on Dalton. There were some higher rated safeties available in Kilgore & Wheatley.
Moving Wilson also opens up some additional money (I think around 8M).
Jauan Jennings to the Raiders would make so much sense to me if they can make the money work.
One thing I noticed is Spytek, Kubiak, new DC Ben are drafting versatility, playmaking tape and SPEED (even the big RB Mike WA Jr) with all these much needed Secondary picks. Stiff in transition guys we have enough of already (Pola-mao etc) Kilgore and Wheatley are stiff Safeties in coverage.
Shoryuken – Gotcha. I liked the versatility for Wheatley (older though) and Kilgore. But appears that Johnson also has that.
I also like the fact that they are willing to move around in the draft. Seems like we’ve had ten years of sitting there and waiting.
I’m sure they’ve made moves before, but the three moves they made this year feels like more than they made in the past 5 years.
Washington imo is the perfect back to pair with Jeanty. He may be big but he’s way faster than Jeanty and can be your change of pace speed back #2.
Dalton and Stukes make perfect sense if you’re going zone defense. Both seem to excel there.
Love taking a chance on Crawford and McCoy and pairing it with safe picks like Zuhn and Stukes. I even like the Benson pick given his upside.
Overall I think you guys had a pretty solid draft where you got multiple genuine starters and a few potential ones.
I agree on Washington. I’m not predicting anything on him, but our RB room was awful past Jeanty.
I think he’ll be in a better situation in New Orleans. In Las Vegas, he was under pressure to be THE guy opposite Crosby because they basically had absolutely nobody else. I know Koonce had the one year when he was a starter and had eight sacks but that’s really it. In New Orleans, Wilson will be playing behind two proven starters on big money contracts.
He’ll also be on a much better defense and a much better team overall compared to the Raiders teams he’s played on. He’ll be able to come in and compete on a winning team as part of a talented and tough defense full of winners and as part of a winning organization with a solid roster and a way higher floor than Las Vegas.
Winning team? Not since Drew Brees really.
They were 9-8 in 2021 and 2023, and the biggest reason they haven’t had winning seasons since is because of their QB play.
They have a strong defense when fully healthy, a talented offense, and a pretty strong offensive line.
They also went like a straight decade of winning and being legitimate contenders.
When was the last time that was true of the Raiders?
Not surprised, he just never played to his freaky size and arm length the past 3 years save for a few moments. Tyree had his foot injury when drafted by McDaniels & his GM Buddy, they didn’t take Jalen Carter like 9 other teams as well, I wanted CB Witherspoon but Pete & Schneider took him 2 spots ahead, BUT this pick should have been CB Gonzalez who was the 1B CB of that draft after do it all Witherspoon. Raiders moving on and with the 5th rnder they got the other Arizona Safety to pair with 2nd rnd Slot CB/FS Stukes, good luck in NOLA Tyree.
Everyone except the Raiders knew the Wilson pick was dumb at the time. The fact that the next two picks after him were Bijan Robinson and Jalen Carter make it painful.
You could argue that picking at #7 we could have 20 different options chosen in the first round after that who you would rather have chosen than Tyree. Bijan and Jalen being two options for sure.
Sometimes it’s a weak draft and the miss doesn’t seem quite as bad, right? This on the other hand is a Titanic level miscalculation that Ziegler should be asked about in every future job interview.
Jalen Carter I get. He was dropping due to character concerns and uncertainty over his seriousness about football and staying in shape.
Bijan I even get because of the fact you already had Jacobs.
But there were SO many better picks you could’ve made. If you needed a pass rusher, McDonald was there.
You had Kancey at DT. Dalton Kincaid. Gibbs to pair with Jacobs. JSN, Flowers, Addison at WR. Gonzalez at CB. Yeah there were a lot of busts that year but Wilson is probably #1 due to where he got picked.
Sometimes a nfl player just need a chance of scenery to unlock his potential- look @ George Pickens with the Cowboys
Agreed, this isn’t one of those times though and the only thing Tyree and George have in common is the obvious.
Tyree an overvalued 3rd round talent that the Raiders banked on having upside, to which he has none. May be the slowest off the ball edge DE in the history of the NFL.
Pickens on the other hand is an athletic freak who just needed a QB.
And Pickens was never “bad” in Pittsburgh.
Yeah, if anything Pickens proved Pittsburgh right to draft him due to the fact the pick was a risk as he never really reached his full potential at Georgia thanks to injuries. He was very good for them but had the character concerns that led to him being available in trades in the first place.
But Pitt has bounced back by pairing Metcalf with Pittman. Really solid 1-2.
The irony is the late Raiders owner Al Davis loved picking up first round picks that didn’t pan out elsewhere & making them fit with the Raiders. This generation hasn’t seen it much, but they had Jim Plunkett, John Matuszak, Ethan Horton, Lincoln Kennedy, & Tyrone Wheatley just name a few. They’ve obviously had their share of misses too though.
Good points here, thanks for sharing. Forget that Kennedy was originally an ATL pick.
In the rare occasion we do have a value FA signing, they sure don’t stay around like they used to likely due to the losing. Spillane, Chasson two marginal examples of good signings who ran.
Gruden doesn’t come to Oakland around 2000 we might have an alternate reality where Kennedy/Wheatley leave in 2000-01 and have their best years with other teams.
Absolutely laughable pick when drafted. Moronic actually. See ya.
Actually the Raiders had 3 safeties before the draft. They also Tristin McCollum.