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The Las Vegas Raiders drafted a pair of quarterbacks in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL draft, with the team taking both Montana State's Tommy Mellott and North Dakota State's Cam Miller.
But, as it turns out, the Raiders never used a 30 visit on Mellott which, at the time, would've seemed to suggest Las Vegas had no interest in him.
However, Spytek told ESPN's Kalyn Kahler that was just a ploy to throw teams off so they wouldn't trade up ahead of the Raiders to grab the athletic signal-caller late in the draft.
"The risk also is that if you 'trip' somebody like this, you put yourself on the radar as a team that you'd want to get in front of if you want to pick him," Spytek said of his plan with Mellott.
This is yet another example of why fans shouldn't take 30 visits too seriously.
But that wasn't all Spytek was up to.
Remember the viral story about Spytek's son warning that he would disown the Raiders GM if he didn't take Jeanty? That was another deception.
"I involved my kid in the Ashton Jeanty chase, just to maybe get people to think that, well, he would never do what the 10-year-old says," Spytek explained.
Well played, sir.
Spytek trying to throw teams off with Jeanty is understandable with how high the pick was. But seeing the Raiders general manager setting up a smokescreen for a little-known sixth-round quarterback is just next-level stuff.
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