NFL Rumors: How Much Influence Will Tom Brady Have On Raiders?

Tom Brady’s glory days as an NFL quarterback are behind him, but the 47-year-old is plenty busy as a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders.

Brady minority stake was approved in October, however, as a minority owner of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces, a Major League Pickleball expansion team and a member of FOX Sports’ NFL broadcast, Brady’s role has been questioned — and understandably so. Yet, even though Brady hasn’t been given a concrete job title in the front office, the Raiders are still expected to leverage the seven-time Super Bowl champion plenty.

“New Raiders minority owner Tom Brady represents ‘excellence,’ according to Raiders majority owner Mark Davis,” The Athletic’s Dianna Russini wrote. “While Brady is busy broadcasting for Fox and may have only 10 percent equity in the Raiders, I expect his involvement in running the team to be closer to 90 percent. We already know the organization wants to lean on Brady when picking a future quarterback. One of Davis’s strengths is his openness to listening to experienced football people, and he values Brady’s understanding of what it takes to win at a high level.”

Las Vegas certainly is in need of some form of guidance, currently playing for draft positioning with a rock-bottom 2-7 record, good enough for last in the AFC West. The Raiders have missed the postseason in six of the past seven seasons, having nothing other than a wild-card loss in 2021 to show for their years of misery. Perhaps giving Brady the keys to the driver’s seat is the solution for what’s appeared to be a hopeless franchise with no direction or reason to be optimistic.

Granted, aside from Brady’s presumably crowded schedule due to his multiple business ventures, the Raiders part-owner is also working under a list of restrictions due to the conflict of interests from his gig with FOX Sports. Making the transition from an on-field icon to a broadcast speaker has been challenging enough for Brady, but inheriting the power of directing the future of Raiders football matches the level of a 28-3 Super Bowl deficit.

For starters, Brady and the Raiders will need to search for their next starting quarterback — a department Brady’s expertise surpasses all in, especially in Las Vegas.