Defensive End · Las Vegas Raiders

Maxx Crosby

No. 98 · 8th season

Maxx Crosby says he's a Raider for life. The trade deadline will have something to say about that.

It's a simple enough thing to say when the roster is intact and the season is young. "Raider for life." The words land clean. What happens when the phone starts ringing is a different conversation.

Crosby has become the kind of player whose name comes up every time a contender needs an edge rusher who can wreck a game plan on his own. He has said, plainly, that he is all in — that Las Vegas is where he wants to be. That kind of loyalty isn't nothing. It's also the kind of thing the trade deadline has a way of complicating, whether a player wants it to or not.

The Raiders are in an uncertain stretch. And the closer the deadline gets, the more that loyalty pledge becomes a question mark instead of a period. Not because Crosby is wavering — but because staying somewhere you love sometimes requires the people in charge to love you back just as loud.

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