INDIANAPOLIS — Don’t count the Raiders among the teams desperately seeking a quarterback at the NFL scouting combine, seeing how Derek Carr “took a significant jump last year,” coach Jack Del Rio said Wednesday.

Carr enters his third season after winning 10 of his past 22 games. He lost his first 10 starts.

“We have a really good quarterback in Derek Carr coming off his second year now,” Del Rio said. “He took a significant jump last year, and there’s a lot of room for growth.

“We look forward to further developing him and our football team. It’s imperative that you find a guy to lead your franchise, and we feel like we have one.”

Carr’s leadership and throwing ability drew praise from Del Rio, who gave an I-told-you-so to reporters in terms of Carr’s deep-throw prowess that shined in 2015. The addition of wide receivers Amari Cooper, Michael Crabtree and Seth Roberts helped Carr’s yards-per-attempt average jump from 5.5 to 7.0 last year.

“I sat up here last year and said he could throw the deep ball well. That’s something we saw on tape, but he just didn’t have guys who could go get it,” Del Rio said. “I feel like we’ve collected a couple guys who can go get it with Amari Cooper. With that, we saw him hit a higher percentage of deep balls and throw more of them last year.”

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