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There's no denyingthat fits what the want in a starting quarterback.Garoppolo played for Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels in when the QB entered the league as a second-round pick in the 2014 draft, so he's intimately familiar with the offense in Las Vegas.On Monday, the Raiders agreed to sign Garoppolo to a three-year, $67.5 million deal that includes $34 million in guaranteed money. So McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler can still draft Matthew Dellavedova Jersey a quarterback of the future next month, po sibly at No. 7 overall.For now, Garoppolo provides Las Vegas with a legit franchise quarterback in an AFC West that includes big names like with the , with the and with the .During his three seasons in New England as a backup for Tom Brady, Garoppolo completed 67% of his pa ses for 690 yards, with five touchdowns and no interceptions. He posted a 106.2 pa ser rating. Garoppolo also was succe sful in San Francisco, leading an offense directed by head coach Kyle Shanahan with a plethora of playmakers in , , and .The Raiders boast plenty of Giannis Antetokounmpo Jersey playmakers of their own, led by running back , tight end and receivers and . Yet Las Vegas averaged just 23 points per contest and finished 4-9 in one-score games last season under the direction of QB .Since entering the league in 2014, Garoppolo ranks seventh in the league in pa ser rating (99.6) and tops the NFL in yards per attempt (8.3) among 43 quarterbacks with at least 1,500 pa sing attempts during that time frame.Yes, Garoppolo can play. But the i sue for the Raiders is if he can play an entire season without getting injured.The product finished 38-17 as a starter for San Francisco, leading the to two NFC Championship Games and a Torrey Craig Jersey Super Bowl appearance. But he also finished on injured reserve in three of the past five seasons, including mi sing the second half of the 2022 season with a broken foot.So how much can the Raiders rely on a 31-year-old, injury-prone quarterback to answer the bell each week in the competitive AFC West?"You've got to have a great leader," McDaniels said at the NFL Combine when asked about quarterback traits he looks for. "He's got to be able to have mental and physical toughne s, no question about it. There's going to be a ton of adversity in the National Football League season, and whether it's physical things he's going to have to battle through or the mental toughne s to endure a couple of lo ses and keep going, those kinds Pat Connaughton Jersey of things are always going to be prerequisites for us."And he's got to be able to move the ball, score points and take care of it. When you talk about quarterback play, they need to get us in the end zone, we need to protect the ball from the other team, and ultimately, we got to win. There's a lot of things that go into playing this position really well."After Carr signed with the after being Jaylen Adams Jersey released by Las Vegas, McDaniels and Ziegler are about to find out if Garoppolo has enough of those things to lead the Raiders back to the playoffs in 2023.Eric D. Williams has reported on the NFL for more than a decade, covering the Los Angeles Rams for Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Chargers for ESPN and the Seattle Seahawks for the Tacoma News Tribune. Follow him on Twitter at .Top stories from FOX Sports: NFL trending in this topic |
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