Alex Cappa

RG·

Las Vegas Raiders

Tier 8Round 3, pick 94 in 2018

Updated November 10, 2026

72.2

Model Score

Up from 68.8 last year

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Alex Cappa is an RG for the Las Vegas Raiders (updated November 10, 2026).

Model Score by season

Up 3.4 from last season.

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

A championship guard whose ceiling has always stayed low.

The case for

Super Bowl LV ring as the Buccaneers' starting right guard plus the Humboldt State Division II origin gives him the rare D2-to-champion résumé at the position.
Eight years of NFL starter reps across three systems gives him real veteran market value as plug-in starter depth.

The worry

Career STTM range almost entirely in tier 7-8 across the past five seasons confirms the structural ceiling has rarely climbed above the late-round-pick baseline.
Age 31 plus eight years of guard-position wear puts the late-career structural decline question on every 2026 projection.

What to watch: Whether Cappa holds the Raiders' starting right guard job for the 2026 season or whether Las Vegas's broader offensive line investment compresses his role.

Full take and bio

Super Bowl LV ring plus career STTM range mostly in the tier 7-8 band across the past five years confirms Cappa is a championship-pedigree guard whose ceiling has rarely climbed above the late-round-pick baseline. The Humboldt State Division II origin plus eight years of NFL survival put him in the journeyman-to-champion class. The 2026 question is whether Cappa holds the starter role at age 31 with the Raiders or whether the structural age-related decline closes the chapter.

Cappa came out of Humboldt State (Division II) as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 3rd-round pick (94th overall) in 2018 and won Super Bowl LV as the Buccaneers' starting right guard. He signed a four-year, $35M deal with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2022 free agency, then signed with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2025. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#85) in 2021, tier 7 (#53) in 2022, tier 8 (#83) in 2023, tier 8 (#106) in 2024, and tier 8 (#80) in 2025.

Alex Cappa Injury StatusNot listed

Alex Cappa is not on the injury report as of Nov 9. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Draft & College

Round 3, pick 94 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2018, out of Humboldt St.. He went about where consensus had him.

Taken#94

Consensus board102nd

Coming out: 5.39s 40 yd, 24 reps bench, 26.5" vertical, 97" broad, 8.04s 3-cone, 4.84s shuttle.

What this pick usually becomes. Of the 410 players taken as a third-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 50% earned a second contract and 39% became starters. The median one started 21 career games.