Raiders tight end Brock Bowers was limited for most of the 2025 season due to a bone bruise and a PCL sprain in his knee. He did not require any offseason surgery and has worked his way back to 100% with full participation in the Raiders’ ongoing OTAs.
“It feels good to be back out there practicing full speed,” Bowers said (via ESPN’s Ryan McFadden).
Bowers, 23, was the No. 13 pick in the 2024 draft and electrified as a rookie with 112 receptions on 153 targets for 1,194 yards and five touchdowns. He earned Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro recognition and finished second in Offensive Rookie of the Year voting.
In 2025, he appeared in just 12 games and caught 64 of his 86 targets for 680 yards and seven touchdowns. Those numbers represented drops in season-long and per-game volume – down from 6.6 receptions and 70.2 yards per game to 5.3 and 56.7 – but he maintained very similar efficiency metrics when healthy. Despite the down year, he still earned a Pro Bowl nod.
Bowers’ third season in Las Vegas will be very different than his first two. He will be playing under a new head coach and catching passes from a new quarterback for the third year in a row, though that turnover should end with Klint Kubiak and Fernando Mendoza now in place for the foreseeable future.
Bowers’ role in the Raiders offense has yet to be determined. The Seahawks’ tight ends were not seen as a huge part of Kubiak’s scheme last year, though A.J. Barner quietly had a solid season with some key catches in the playoffs. But one of Kubiak’s strategies at his various stops has been to funnel the ball into his best player’s hands, whether that was Justin Jefferson in Minnesota or Jaxon Smith-Njigba in Seattle.
The Raiders applied this strategy to Bowers during his All-Pro rookie year, which featured 153 targets – the most of any tight end and sixth-most league-wide. He could see a similar workload in 2026, especially with a rookie quarterback who will benefit from schemed-up touches to his star tight end.