The Oakland Raiders have had lots of success in the second round of the NFL draft. I originally wanted to make this a slideshow, but technical difficulties are not allowing that.  I have made a list of players taken by the Raiders in the second round of the draft that have been contributors.  They are in no particular order, but here they are:

Howie Long: I will start with one of my favorites of all time and that is DE Howie Long.  Long is a member of the NFL Hall of Fame and was a member of the Super Bowl XVIII squad.  He was drafted in the second round of the 1981 draft.  He is second on the Raiders "official" all-time sack leaders behind long time teammate Greg Townsend (the sack wasn't an official stat until 1982) with 84, and appeared in eight Pro Bowls. 

Dave Casper: "Ghost to the Post" was a play named after him where he ran a post route.  It became famous in a game against the Baltimore Colts in the AFC Divisional round of the playoffs.  Casper was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2002.  He was a second round pick in 1974 and played with us until 1980, then returned for a season in 1984. As a Raider, he had 255 catches for 3294 yards and 53 TDs.  Casper is a four-time Pro Bowler. 

Fred Bilitnekoff: Fred Bilitnekoff is second on the Raiders all-time receiving list, behind only Tim Brown.  He was drafted in the second round of the 1965 draft. He is a six-time Pro Bowler and had 589 catches for 8974 yards and 76 TDs.  He was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 1988 and was Super Bowl XI MVP.

Kenny Stabler:  Now here's the man that was throwing to the previous two Hall of Famers, Kenny Stabler.  Stabler is the Raiders all-time leading passer with 19078 yards, a 59% completion percentage, and 150 TDs.  His name often comes up as a player that deserves the Hall of Fame when two of his favorite targets are in there as well as two of his best blockers.  He is a four-time Pro Bowler and led the Raiders to a Super Bowl XI victory.  Stabler was drafted in 1968, but eventually beat out fellow rookie QB Eldrige Dickey (who was actually drafted ahead of him in round 1) for the starting job.

Matt Millen: Millen is best known for his horrible job as GM for the Detroit Lions recently, but I remember him best as a solid MLB for the Raiders.  Drafted in round 2 of the 1980 draft, he was a member of both Super Bowl XV and XVIII teams and made the Pro Bowl in 1988. He has 11 official career sacks.  

Dan Conners:  Another solid man in the middle from the old days.  Dan Conners was actually drafted an OT in round 2 of the 1964 draft, then converted into an outstanding MLB.  He had 15 career INTs with three returned for TDs.  Sacks were not official in his days.  He was a three-time Pro Bowler.   

Mike Davis: Here's a DB we don't talk about much, even though he was a member of both Super Bowl XV and XVIII squads.  He is SS Mike Davis.  He was the fourth man in a secondary that featured NFL Hall of Famer Mike Haynes, legendary Raider Lester Hayes, and another overlooked Raider, Van McElroy.  Drafted in round 2 of the 1978 draft, he never made the Pro Bowl, but his two Super Bowl rings along with his 11 career sacks and 11 career INTs can't be ignored.

George Buehler, Phil Villapiano, John Vella, Monte Johnson: I decided to group the rest of the Super Bowl XI squad into one since there's not much info on them.  George Buehler and John Vella started on the right side of the offensive line at guard and tackle, and neither would ever make the Pro Bowl.  They were often overshadowed by the future Hall of Famers on the left side of the line. 

Monte Johnson and Phil Villapiano were key members of the defense.  Johnson was a solid hitter with 10 career INTs. Villapiano was one of the originators of the "Raider Show Biz" and a four-time Pro Bowler with 11 career INTs.

Dave Browning, Willie Jones: These are the other Super Bowl XV members that didn't get their own paragraph.  Browning was a solid starter at DE and Willie Jones would rotate in and contribute on special teams.  Browning would finish his career with one official sacks and one INT.  Jones' highlights are mainly returning two fumbles for TDs. 

Jack Squirek, Bill Pickel: Pickel was a rookie in Super Bowl XVIII, but would go on to be fourth on the Raiders official all-time sack leaderboard with 53, but would never earn a Pro Bowl honor.  Squirek is best known for his five-yard INT return for a TD in Super Bowl XVIII.  Both were fairly low profile, but made their names known.  Pickel started out good, but declined quickly.     

Steve Wisnewski, Barrett Robbins: These two were a solid pair of offensive line anchors for most of the 90s. The Wiz was the Raiders top choice in the 1989 draft and went on to be an eight-time Pro Bowler and only missed two games in his career. 

Robbins was the second pick in the 1995 draft.  I always thought he was Pro Bowl material that was left out.  He was finally named to the Pro Bowl in 2002, but wouldn't play because he was getting treatment for his bipolar disorder that he was diagnosed with after his disappearance the night before Super Bowl XXXVII. 

Wisnewski should be inducted into the Hall of Fame someday despite no Super Bowls, but eight Pro Bowls is hard to ignore.  Robbins, on the other hand, will always be known as a great player that let his team down the night before the Super Bowl and apparently never really cared.  I did find out recently that he is staying in a halfway house in Houston, TX and doesn't have a dime to his name anymore.

Tony Bryant, Jerry Porter, Doug Jolley: These three were factors in the Super Bowl XXXVII squad.  Tony Bryant was a second round pick in the 1999 draft.  He looked like he'd be an outside pass rushing force for years to come, but a neck injury in the 2002-03 playoffs would slow his career.  He had 17.5 sacks as a Raider in his four seasons (I think it would've been higher if Rod Coleman wasn't such a force from the inside).  He attempted an NFL comeback in 2004 with New Orleans, but it only lasted two years. 

Jerry Porter was a second round pick in the 2000 NFL draft and is sixth on the Raiders all-time receiving charts.  He had two of the the best receivers to ever play the game to learn from in Tim Brown and Jerry Rice, but once he became the No. 1 wide out, he was a major let down.  He would have the best season of his career in 2004 (the year Brown was released and Rice was traded) with 998 yards receiving yards and nine TDs (matching his career high from 2002), but would slowly decline after that. 

His career really came to a halt when he clashed with head coach Art Shell in 2006 and lost his starting job, ending up with only one catch on the season.  He would get it back in 2007 under new coach Lane Kiffin, but he wasn't the same and left via free agency at the end of the season.  He seemed like he was going to be a good, reliable, goal-line receiver, but once the team started to fall, he did too. 

Doug Jolley was a second round pick in the 2002 NFL Draft.  When we think about great Raider tight ends, we remember Dave Casper, Todd Chirstensen, Raymond Chester, Ethan Horton, and try to forget Rickey Dudley, but we tend to overlook Doug Jolley.  Though his numbers were low, he was a reliable target and a good blocker. 

He was traded away after the 2004 season at the request of Norv Turner because he wasn't fit for the vertical offense he was trying to install.  We never had another good tight end after that until Zach Miller.  None of these guys ever saw the Pro Bowl or will see the Hall of Fame, but they were all key pieces in a team that went to the Super Bowl.

Tom Howard, Zach Miller: Current standouts that are former second round picks are LB Tom Howard and TE Zach Miller.  Both young men were penciled in as starters as soon as they were drafted and contributed immediately. 

Howard was a second round pick in the 2006 NFL draft.  In 2006 and 2007, he finished second on the team in tackles behind fellow LB Kirk Morrison, and in 2008 he finished 3rd behind SS Gibril Wilson and Morrison.  I feel that he should've been to the Pro Bowl in 2007 because he had a lot of tackles and led all LBs with six INTs and returned two of them for TDs.  Just like teammate CB Nnamdi Asomugha, he had his break out season and opponents would shy away from his area of coverage the next year. 

Miller was a second round pick 2007 NFL draft.  As a rookie, he posted 444 yards receiving and three TDs, the best receiving numbers by a rookie Raider since Tim Brown.  In 2008, Miller led the Raiders in receiving with 778 yards and his lone TD came off a 63 yard break away.  He was often double covered on the goal-line this year, as he was the only consistent receiving threat until Chaz Schilens had worked his way into the starting line up.  The Pro Bowl is definitely in the future for both of these players, and they are key pieces that will factor into us building a championship team.

Mike Mitchell, Stanford Routt: Safety Mike Mitchell is our most recent second round pick and is thought very highly of in the Raider Nation.  His hitting ability has been compared to that of Jack Tatum.  With our history of successful second round picks, Mitchell is likely to be added to that category. 

DB Stanford Routt was a second round pick in 2005 and hasn't seen much playing time, but has utilized what playing time he's had pretty well, so I decided not to leave him out.  He became a starter in 2007 in place of Fabian Washington, who was getting burned all the time.  He lost that spot to Deangelo Hall in 2008, but even after Hall was released eight games into the season, he was beat out by Chris Johnson. 

Routt has seen significant time as a nickel back and started the final game of the 2008 season in place of injured Nnamdi Asomugha.  He did just as good of a job shutting down his area of coverage just like Nnamdi had done all season.  Mitchell is likely to become a starter for us and Routt will be a key factor if Asomugha or Johnson is injured.

All these players mentioned were key pieces to great teams that we've been in years passed, and that is the reason why I don't like trading second round picks.