Mike Florio

earn the number one overall pick in the draft they shut both Crosby and Brock Bowers down for those last two games and they successfully finished at the top of the draft order and obviously the bottom of the league so I think something's going to happen here now he's got the knee injury head surgery on and that's going to take time to heal but I don't know that's going to stop anyone from doing a deal if the Raiders make him available part of the game is to make it look like you don't want to trade him in order to get greater value but if you can get

two, three, four teams at the table, you don't need to act like you're going to keep him.

You can do what the Texans did with Deshaun Watson when they had four teams.

You name your price and you let them battle it out.

So I think it's one of the stories to watch this offseason.

And when you look at it from where the Raiders are right now, by the time they would get to a point where they would be competitive, because I don't think this is a quick turnaround.

This isn't Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams.

This is

Clint Kubiak and quarterback TBD with a lot of holes in the roster.

By the time they become competitive, we're going to be close to the end, if not past the end, of Max Crosby's prime.

Sell high, get what you can for him now, and then try to use those draft picks to build a contending team.

Well, Glazer suggested that Max Crosby could fetch more on the trade market than Michael Parsons did.

And if you do it early in the offseason, if you do it before teams have spent their cap money...

If you do it at a time where everyone can be a little more deliberate and the process can play out a little bit more and you can get more teams to the table, maybe you can get more because at the end of the day, the options for Jerry Jones and the Cowboys when it came to Michael Parsons were the Packers and the Eagles.

And there was no way in hell the Cowboys were going to trade Michael Parsons to the Eagles.

So you do it early.

You get at least a one.

It's a one plus.

A one plus what?

That remains to be seen, and a lot of that's going to be driven by what kind of a competition emerges for Max Crosby's services.