2020 NFL Draft: 6 teams that absolutely need to draft Tua Tagovailoa

The Las Vegas Raiders are too a fringe team in contention for Tagovailoa, but their pathway to landing him is a tad more believable than what the Colts have working for them. Las Vegas is picking one spot ahead of the Colts at No. 12, having gone 7-9 last year as well. So the Raiders can easily trade up into the top-10 to get him. More importantly, they have the ammunition to do so.

Because of the Khalil Mack trade with the Chicago Bears ahead of the 2018 season, the Raiders own the rights to the Bears’ first-round pick at No. 19. If the Raiders want to send shock waves to the rest of the league, they can put together a package to move up to as high as No. 3 in a deal with the Detroit Lions if they include those two first-round picks, plus something else.

Overall, Tagovailoa won’t go higher than No. 3 to a team that trades up with the Lions. This is because the Cincinnati Bengals will likely take LSU Tigers quarterback Joe Burrow at No. 1 and the Washington Redskins would then, in theory, take Ohio State Buckeyes defensive end Chase Young at No. 2. Otherwise, Tagovailoa probably falls to the Miami Dolphins at No. 5, all things equal.

The biggest reason the Raiders aren’t higher up on this list is they still have big decisions to make about Derek Carr and his future with the team. He should be in the prime of his career, but not everyone in Raider Nation is sold on the former second-rounder out of Fresno State. Should the Raiders end up trading Carr before 2020, all signs point to the Raiders doing something big.