Down Eleven, Then Forced Four. The Las Vegas Raiders' Week 3 2026 game, broken down by the data. Offense, defense, and the fantasy fallout for every name that matters. Kirk Cousins and Tre Tucker headline the skill positions.

0:00 Intro

2:05 What happened

4:02 Offense

5:29 Defense

7:46 Fantasy fallout

8:08 Next week

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A week after Miami showed Las Vegas the fewest light boxes in the league and the Raiders ran 33 designed runs for 133 yards, the Chargers showed six or fewer on 15 of 25 designed runs and Las Vegas gained 56 yards, while Kirk Cousins threw a catchable ball on 24 of 29 throws and his receivers dropped 4 of them.

Three Turnovers Forced, Two and Oh. The Las Vegas Raiders' Week 2 2026 game, broken down by the data. Offense, defense, and the fantasy fallout for every name that matters. Kirk Cousins and Tre Tucker headline the skill positions.

0:00 Intro

2:04 What happened

4:21 Offense

6:19 Defense

7:45 Fantasy fallout

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Miami showed Las Vegas a light box on 3 of 33 designed runs, 9 percent — the lowest share any offense in the league saw in Week 1, against 66 percent across all of last season — and the Raiders ran those 33 for 133 yards anyway, while Kirk Cousins put 2 of 30 throws up for grabs, the fifth-highest interception-worthy rate of the week, and threw 2 interceptions.

Five Sacks and a 93-Yard Drive. The Las Vegas Raiders' Week 1 2026 game, broken down by the data. Offense, defense, and the fantasy fallout for every name that matters. Kirk Cousins and Tre Tucker headline the skill positions.

0:00 Intro

1:55 What happened

3:30 Offense

4:45 Defense

5:48 Fantasy fallout

6:06 Next week

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Klint Kubiak named Kirk Cousins the Week 1 starter on Wednesday, five days after refusing to — which makes Fernando Mendoza the first No. 1 overall pick since 2018 to sit an opener. Las Vegas spent the top waiver priority on a cornerback, Darrell Luter Jr., not the receiver Kubiak had floated, then lost a receiver anyway: Dont'e Thornton Jr. to injured reserve for at least four games. Seventeen practice-squad players as of Monday, and every one but the last came off the team's own ninety. Keyron Crawford's injury is an Achilles, not an ankle.

The Raiders kept all three quarterbacks on the initial 53 — the exact cutdown decision our last episode flagged — and Klint Kubiak declined to name a Week 1 starter seven days after calling the job Kirk Cousins' to lose. The rest of cut day brought a deadline-day trade of Jordan Meredith to the Jets, season-ending injured reserve for rookie edge Keyron Crawford, and Ashton Jeanty — a name our last episode missed — making the roster while working back from an ankle sprain.

Fernando Mendoza's first NFL start opened with an 80-yard pick-six and ended at halftime down 20-3, before Aidan O'Connell led 20 unanswered points and won it 22-20 with a sneak and 14 seconds left. By Friday, Klint Kubiak was calling Week 1 Kirk Cousins' job to lose — and the three-quarterback question became a real cutdown decision.

Fernando Mendoza's first NFL film exists: four series, 10-of-16 for 97 yards and a touchdown, composed by every account. Kirk Cousins was nearly perfect for one drive and then watched — and by Friday Klint Kubiak was saying all three quarterbacks deserve first-team reps. The timeline the season exists to answer keeps moving up.

The timeline question the whole season exists to answer just advanced: the rookie saw increased work and his first snaps with the ones this week, while Klint Kubiak went out of his way to say he's "not married" to Kirk Cousins. The bridge is load-bearing, and the traffic is starting to cross.