Week Seven: Potential Matchups for the Raiders Offense

The Las Vegas Raiders (1-4) and the Houston Texans (1-3-1) are coming off a bye week and looking to put their early struggles behind.

Both teams find themselves in the bottom of the AFC standings, but the bigger problem moving forward, unless they tie, is that someone’s season will continue to fall deeper in the hole.

Good news comes to the Raiders this week as they come in as a seven point favorite for their Week 7 game against the Texans.

Perhaps one of the reasons they come as a big favorite despite the record, is that the Raiders roster does not reflect their record.

The Raiders have a franchise quarterback, an elite wide receiver, one of the best tight ends in the league, and a running back who makes a struggling offensive line look good.

Unfortunately, the Texans find themselves in a rebuilding season and in search of answers across the entire team.

But that doesn’t mean the Texans will just give the Raiders an easy victory on Sunday.

The Raiders offense will need to do a little bit of work and carry this team if they want to earn their second win of the season.

Offensively there are some favorable match-ups, but there are offensive players who will need to step-up on Sunday.

Red Zone: The Texans might allow more opportunities in the Red Zone than the Raiders, but they allow half the amount of touchdowns than the Silver and Black.

This is an area where wide receiver Hunter Renfrow can implement his skills and take advantage of the opportunities in the Red Zone.

Clean Pocket: Alex Bars and Jermaine Eluemunor in particular can improve and cement themselves in the starting five on the Raiders offensive line.

They will face a familiar foe, former Raider Maliek Collins. The Texans D-Line has generated three more sacks than the Raiders.

While the Raiders offensive line has already given up 11 sacks through five games, this weekend can be a suitable match-up for the O-line that needs a little bit of a confidence booster, and this might be the one.

The Raiders-Texans game will be on Sunday, Oct. 23 and that game will kick off at 1:05 p.m. PDT and can be seen on CBS.

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