HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders have fired common supervisor Tom Telesco after one season, the group introduced Thursday.
The transfer comes two days after the group fired coach Antonio Pierce after his first full season because the group’s coach.
“We admire his efforts in serving to construct a basis for the longer term. We want Tom and his household all the perfect,” the group stated in a press release.
The Raiders completed 4-13 this season, hampered by an unsettled quarterback scenario. 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. Both Minshew and O’Connell handled accidents throughout the season, forcing the group additionally to start out Desmond Ridder.
The Raiders employed Telesco, 52, final January, lower than six weeks after he was fired, together with coach Brandon Staley, by the Los Angeles Chargers following a 63-21 loss to Las Vegas.
Telesco, employed partially for his success in drafting, notably within the early rounds, nailed the Raiders’ high three picks final spring.
He went with the best-player-available, reasonably than want, with the No. 13 total choose and chosen tight finish Brock Bowers, who set an NFL rookie single-season receiving document with 112 catches and was named to the Pro Bowl.
In the second spherical, Telesco drafted offensive lineman Jackson Powers-Johnson, who began video games at each left guard and heart.
And within the third spherical, Telesco took DJ Glaze, who settled right into a beginning position at proper sort out, which had been the Raiders’ high place of want coming into the draft.
Injuries wreaked havoc with the Raiders roster this season as, per the group, 31.8% of their Week 1 starters hung out on injured reserve (tied for the highest-such proportion 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 participant (the third-highest such mark within the league).
The Raiders, beneath Telesco and Pierce, endured a 10-game dropping streak, their longest dropping 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 new GM-coach combo will inherit the No. 6 total choose in addition to a further third-round draft alternative from the New York Jets as a part of the Davante Adams commerce.
Plus, 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.
Also, the Raiders new GM is projected to have $107.3 million in wage cap house and a slew of selections to make on their very own free brokers as starters on the protection (edge rushers K’Lavon Chaisson and Malcom Koonce, linebackers Robert Spillane and Divine Deablo, cornerback Nate Hobbs and safeties Marcus Epps and Tre’von Moehrig) and offense (operating backs Alexander Mattison and Ameer Abdullah) are scheduled to hit free company.
