I’m not shy in my praise of Mike Mayock as the best draft analyst out there, and it sounds like NFL teams agree with the assessment.
Mayock told Joe Rose on WQAM Thursday (Via Omar Kelly) that he’s had “three or four offers to join NFL front offices” but that “it wasn’t the right time.”
One of those offers may have come from the Raiders. Mayock was tied to Oakland as a possible successor to Mike Lombardi three years ago, although the team denied the report.
Mayock went on to say he’d be open to the possibility of joining a team “if the right opportunity came along.”
Selfishly, we hope he sticks with television.
There are plenty of front office jobs, but only so many prominent TV gigs. We’d imagine it would be hard for him to leave. Working in television isn’t as grueling, it probably will pay better long-term, and it has far more security.
