The Las Vegas Raiders are done with their offseason program but we are no closer to knowing who will win the quarterback competition between Gardner Minshew and Aidan O’Connell.
Both quarterbacks saw their fair share of struggles during spring practices, but some of that can be attributed to the signal-callers going up against a good defense while also having to learn a new offense.
During mandatory minicamp, Minshew saw the majority of the first-team reps on Day 1, but O’Connell got the nod for more first-team reps on Day 2.
Despite the uncertainty at the quarterback position going into training camp next month, head coach Antonio Pierce sees the competition as a good thing.
“Some people see competition at the quarterback position as like, ‘Oh my God, we’re scared.’ No, I love it. Because the rest of our team, we’re looking at them,” Pierce said, according to Levi Edwards of Raiders.com.
“So what does everybody else on our team have to do? They have to compete… We’re not going to be able to keep all of them. Seeing the competition at quarterback has risen the level of competition overall on our team.”
People will have their opinions on who they think the favorite is, but the fact of the matter is, there hasn’t been any indication that either quarterback has taken control, leaving things very much up in the air going into training camp next month.
