Brock Bowers may have the $75 million Las Vegas Raiders facility to thank for one of the easiest parts of his day: lunch.
That’s the word from his fiancée, Cameron Newell, who said on the Raiders’ in-house podcast “4th & Cole” on Friday that the tight end has become especially attached to the sloppy Joe sandwiches made by the team’s kitchen staff at the Henderson, Nevada, headquarters.
“Brock loves -- loves! -- the chefs at the facility. He has a very strong connection with them,” Newell said.
She said Bowers came home one day talking about the meal with a level of enthusiasm she hadn’t expected.
“One day, he came home, and he's like, 'Oh, my god, they made sloppy Joes at the facility. They're so good.'
I'm like, 'Oh, my god, I didn't even know you liked sloppy Joes. Do you want me to make them for you, for dinner?'
And he's like, 'Oh, no, I can only eat them at the facility.'”
Newell added that Bowers recently put away three sloppy joes before 10 a.m., which she described as a new personal best.
“And I'm like, 'How's your stomach? OK?
How do you just not run to the bathroom after that?'" she said.
"But then he won't let me make them for him."
Newell and Bowers got engaged in July.
The conversation came on a podcast hosted by Kylie Cole, the wife of Raiders punter Adam Cole, and the show is posted on the team’s YouTube channel.
Beyond the lunch talk, there’s also growing buzz around what Bowers could do in Klint Kubiak’s offense. ESPN analyst Seth Walder picked the Raiders tight end to win Offensive Player of the Year in 2026, and he noted that no tight end has ever won the award.
Walder’s case leans heavily on Kubiak, the new Raiders coach, and the production he helped unlock last season for Seattle Seahawks receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Walder pointed to Smith-Njigba’s 35% target-share workload, which turned into 119 catches, 1,793 yards, 10 touchdowns and the 2025 Offensive Player of the Year award.
“Now, it's Bowers who is the clear-cut best receiver,” Walder wrote. “I think the Raiders will run their offense through him, and he'll put up monster numbers.”
Las Vegas heads into the season without a receiver who has ever reached 1,000 yards, which leaves Bowers as the offense’s most obvious focal point.
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