Raiders GM Tom Telesco on 13th overall pick: 'Typically, I use a magic 8-ball and not a coin'

There will be no commemorative coin in honor of the Raiders' decision to select tight end Brock Bowers.

Days after Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold, the No. 24 overall pick in April's draft, told The Next Round podcast Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce said Las Vegas flipped a coin to decide between selecting him and Bowers at No. 13, general manager Tom Telesco has cleared things up and turned down such a notion.

"Typically, I use a magic 8-ball and not a coin," Telesco joked to Mike Yam on Thursday's NFL Total Access. "But no, part of that draft process, and we do this really two weeks, we'll go through all the different scenarios of what could happen in the first round and how we would react to is and discuss it. When you're picking 13, there aren't that many scenarios to go through. So obviously we had gone through the scenario of players being gone and Brock Bowers is there, and we discussed in a small group -- if that happened like, hey, we're gonna take Brock. So we had gone through the process.

"On draft day, certainly in the first round and a little bit in the second round, there's not a whole lot of discussion when you're on the clock because you've already gone through the scenario of what could play out and what you're going to do. So that's what happened with Brock."

For his part, Pierce also denied Arnold's tale according to former NFL cornerback and sports media personality, Ryan Clark.

"No call, and no coin flip," Pierce told Clark, denying he spoke to Arnold. "As soon as the last two QBs went off the board we said Bowers all the way."

So be it thanks to a magic 8-ball or the team's tireless draft prep, the Raiders knew their plan in Telesco's first year as GM and required little discussion once they were on the