By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 00:36 BST, 22 October 2025 | Updated: 00:36 BST, 22 October 2025
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) - Las Vegas Raiders receiver Jakobi Meyers´ stance hasn´t changed since training camp. He wants to be traded.
That said, as long as Meyers is still wearing silver and black, he´ll remain professional and dedicated toward his job as quarterback Geno Smith´s No.1 target.
"I´m just trying to play good football," Meyers said Tuesday after practice. "If I´m here, I´ll play good football. If I´m not here, I go out there and play wherever I´m supposed to be.
"I´m trying to get healthy and play good football. That´s really all it is."
Meyers, who caught 29 passes for 329 yards through the Raiders' (2-5) first six games, missed Sunday´s game in Kansas City with knee and toe injuries.
Frustrated by the lack of progress on a new contract before the start of this season, the 28-year-old [informed the team in August that he wanted to be traded](https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-raiders-jakobi-meyers-74bc32d4c86daee8977df9c6de6bf6c9).
He also said [the Raiders turned him down](https://apnews.com/article/jakobi-meyers-raiders-trade-request-7e7bfff295c621c464d5545030062e50).
Meyers, who will be 29 on Nov. 9, is in the final season of a three-year, $33 million contract he signed in 2023.
The NFL trade deadline is Nov. 4.
The seventh-year pro said he hasn´t discussed his contract with the Raiders since first expressing his feelings. Instead, he´s trying to stay focused on what he can do to help jump-start an offensive unit that is generating 182.7 yards passing per game, fourth-lowest in the NFL.
"That´s too much for me," Meyers said about discussing his contract. "I just want to be where my feet are. They know how I feel. It´s no reason for me to keep going back crying to them, \`Can you get me out of here?´
"Like, if you move me, you move me. But for the meantime, I got some real people that I care about next to me. I´m trying to make sure I´m being my best self for them."
Rookie wideout Jack Bech said Meyers has been a tremendous mentor for him, as the veteran leads by example, continuing to live in the present while not allowing his contract dispute to infiltrate the locker room.
"He´s out here trying to get better every day," Bech said. "He´s helping the young guys, he´s helping me and Dont´e (Thornton) understand the game, understand the ins and outs of the league, and just being able to know how to get better every day and how to attack the game from a physical and mental standpoint.
"You hear a lot of stories about young guys coming into rooms where the vets don´t really help them out, (but) 'Kobi and Tre (Tucker) have been nothing short but just awesome, just helping us learn and grow."
Added Tucker: "As you come along in this league, you understand that there´s business that obviously gets done, that´s the nature of the business," Tucker said. "But at the same time, you just try to stay focused on what´s going on. And right now, he´s a Raider, and that´s what we´re focused on.
"I know he wants to be here. I want him to be here. But at the end of the day, there´s business that goes on outside of this, so we just control what we can control."
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