Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo has a history of injuries, which means he needs his offensive line to be at its best this season.
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Alex Leatherwood, cut on Tuesday by the Raiders, was the No. 17 overall pick by former coach Jon Gruden and general manager Mike Mayock.
A team that ranked eighth in yards and 10th in offense across the NFL last season fell flatter than a can of non-carbonated soda in the red zone.
The NFL is expected to announce over the next several months a home for its 2024 game, having moved Super Bowl LVIII from New Orleans.
Something is amiss with the former first-round pick out of Alabama, who is averaging just 65.7 yards per game and 3.4 per carry.
The Las Vegas Raiders know that getting to the top of the AFC West means overcoming Kansas City and its electric quarterback.
With several new faces around him on offense, odds favor Carr still running things when the Las Vegas Era kicks off in 2020.
Analysts at the NFL Network think Mike Mayock’s talent for evaluating players will make him a successful general manager and able to work with Raiders coach Jon Gruden.
For a ninth time, Bill Belichick will on Sunday stroll the sidelines as head coach of a Patriots team playing in a season’s final game. For the first time, he will share the moment with his two sons as part of the staff.
The only surprising thing about Mike Mayock being hired as the team’s GM is that anyone is surprised.
Saturday marks just the second time UNLV football will meet Southern California, the first being a 1997 game in which Jon Denton and the Rebels had a chance to take the lead in the fourth quarter before falling.
The Vikings aren’t playing in their stadium this week, just another loop in the postseason belt of despair that has included four Super Bowl losses.
If faith really means seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness, it also means seeing success in Columbus, Ohio, when everyone else sees a trip to the woodshed.
Dan Quinn doesn’t think first about the offensive possession, about one of the most analyzed and criticized plays in Super Bowl history, about the snap that allowed the New England Patriots to lift a fourth Lombardi Trophy.
If the Raiders ultimately can strike a deal with Goldman Sachs that makes up the $650 million the Adelson family had pledged toward a new Las Vegas stadium, the odds of Oakland getting the 24 votes needed for relocation isn’t at all hurt by the casino executive’s withdrawal.