Las Vegas Raiders 5 Most Interesting Facts From 2020 NFL Season

After a promising start to the 2020 NFL season, and upsetting some great teams throughout the year, the Las Vegas Raiders failed to end the year strong and missed the playoffs once again. They will go into 2021 with a promising star TE and RB, while they have some questions at QB with Derek Carr and need to add plenty of help to a defense that ranked 29th in points allowed.

NFL Team Facts From 2020 | Las Vegas Raiders Facts to Know

Here are the 5 most interesting facts from the Las Vegas Raiders 2020 NFL Season:

Waller the Baller

Darren Waller put up amazing production in 2020, putting himself alongside Travis Kelce as the NFL’s top TE’s.

Most single-season REC (107) in Raiders franchise history
Most REC YDS over a 3-game span in a season by a TE ever: Waller (425), Jimmy Graham (413), Shannon Sharpe (413)
Waller among TEs since ’19: 1,188 YAC (1st), 27 contested REC (1st), 122 1st downs (2nd), 55 REC of 15+ YDS (2nd)
Joins Todd Christensen (1983, 1984) as the only TEs in Raiders history with consecutive seasons of 1,000+ REC YDS
Most 100-yd games by a TE in the last 2 seasons: 1. Darren Waller (9), 2. Travis Kelce (8)

LV Stock Price: $10.67 (via FANDEX)

House of Carr

Derek Carr’s future in Vegas is still up in the air, but he’s been one of the greatest QBs to ever wear the Black and Silver.

Carr has more seasons of 4,000+ PASS YDS for the Raiders (3) than all other Raiders QBs in franchise history combined
3rd most career wins by a QB in Raiders history (47)
1st Raiders QB with multiple 50+yd PASS TD in a game since 1996
Also had the t-most lost FUM (3) by a QB in a game since 2003 during their blowout loss to Atlanta

Raiders Franchise RB

Josh Jacobs will be a great cornerstone for the future of this young Raiders offense.

1st player to reach 2,000 RUSH YDS within his 1st 2 seasons in Raiders franchise history
Most career RUSH YDS (2,215) & YScm (2,619) among any player drafted in 2019

Struggle Under Gruden

The hungry Raiders squad haven’t been able to get it done late in the season.

Raiders now have the 2nd worst record (5-13) in December/January regular season games since 2017 (Panthers)
Jon Gruden is the only HC in the NFL that has missed the playoffs in each of the last 3 years and hasn’t been fired