Is this the week the Raiders find offensive balance?

The Las Vegas Raiders are averaging 26.1 points per game this year compared to 14.2 points in 2025, the NFL’s most sizable spike. But offensive coordinator Andrew Janocko isn’t satisfied in the face of a four-game losing skid with the NFL’s second-worst rushing offense.

At least they’re no longer 32nd.

“It’s something that — run game, pass game, screens, everything — just trying to get better every single day,” Janocko said Thursday after practice. “Coming out, working, guys taking techniques to the field, evaluating everything we do, and then just continuing to improve in all aspects.”

The Raiders are hoping to find the balance their offense has lacked since their Week 1 win over the Miami Dolphins at Allegiant Stadium, where they ran for a season-high 130 yards as quarterback Kirk Cousins threw three touchdowns. They haven’t rushed the past four weeks for more than 72 yards, sandwiching 38 yards and 48 yards around 65 yards.

Only the Green Bay Packers are averaging fewer yards per carry (2.9) than Las Vegas (3.0), which next plays Sunday against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

“If you can score early, you can get ahead on people,” Cousins said Wednesday. “Now you give yourself a chance to play from a lead, which allows you to run the football, which goes back to the red zone and four-point plays and things. It all fits together. That’s why football is such a unique and great game. There’s not a single part of your team that doesn’t benefit.”

Helping the Raiders, potentially, is the Jets’ vulnerability against the run, its rushing defense yielding the ninth-most yards per game (127.7) on 4.1 yards per carry. Running back Ashton Jeanty said Las Vegas remains focused on the ways it can improve its rushing offense despite its struggles the last six weeks.

“The biggest thing … we’ve got to be on the same page,” Jeanty said of his offensive line. ” Meeting and a little bit extra communicating with each other. Us as backs, telling them what we’re seeing. Them as an O-line telling us what they’re seeing so we can be on the same page.”

The line could see another change at right guard. Jackson Powers-Johnson, formerly a starter, didn’t practice Thursday with a back injury after participating Wednesday in practice. Powers-Johnson started four of the first five games, but has since been replaced by Caleb Rogers and potentially Sunday by Trey Zuhn III. Right tackle DJ Glaze also was limited for the second straight practice with an ankle injury.

Confidence in coalescing persists.

“We have guys that believe in what we’re doing, believe in success we’re having and know where we’ve fallen short and where we can get better,” Janocko said. “So, I think it’s just a belief in coming to get better. But that starts with Klint (Kubiak). It permeates throughout the building that we’re striving for something, and sometimes you just got to keep working at it, keep working, keep working, and then results come through.”

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