Terrelle Pryor’s 2012 Outlook with the Oakland Raiders

 In 2011, the Oakland Raiders selected Terrelle Pryor in the supplemental draft for a 2012 third-round pick. However, this pick was also accompanied by a five-game suspension in the NFL following a NCAA investigation into players receiving improper benefits.

While the NFL had no direct part in the original investigation and suspension, they chose to negate a bad situation by implementing the suspension to further prevent more college students from using the NFL and the draft to avoid punishment in the NCAA ranks. This move was used to show more solidarity from the NFL to support college sanctions and to prove they fully supported the NCAA in their findings.

The sanctions did not stop the raiders from taking a chance on Pryor and using the future third-round pick on him. Incidentally, due to the compensation picks, the Raiders still ended up with another third-round pick in the 2012 draft. Pryor essentially became Al Davis’ last gift to the Raiders. What we do know of Pryor is this:

Awards and honors 

College Stats 

ATT  783

COMP 477

PCT 60.9

YARDS 6,177

TD 57

INT 26

RATING 144.6




There is little doubt that Pryor has the potential to be one of the better quarterbacks the league has seen in recent years, but you can’t blame the Raiders for taking it slow and giving Pryor a chance to develop after the JaMarcus Russell fiasco.

But where does that leave his development at this stage? It’s actually pretty simple. McKenzie is not going to rush Pryor into the offense this season and is going to do something rare in the modern NFL, and let the kid develop.

We have our starting quarterback in Carson Palmer, and will get a few years out of him before his contract expires and he decides to hang up the cleats for the last time. Palmer is currently under contract u...