The Raiders aren’t holding anything back in the construction of their over 300,000 square-foot headquarters and practice facility, where features are included to conclude public interaction with the space.
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Typically, hotel room assignments for Raiders rookies during training camp are straightforward. Not with Johnathan Abram.
Johnathan Hankins’ first outing in pads was far more conventional this year than in 2018.
Mike Haynes has not changed. When he sees a threat, he runs to cover it.
A Super Bowl champion with the Patriots last season and then made the highest paid offensive lineman in NFL history by the Raiders, Brown at right tackle will be among those protecting quarterback Derek Carr.
The team’s star wide receiver is off the non-football Injury list, having participated in a limited amount of practice Sunday.
Quarterback Derek Carr must build chemistry with two elementally different starting wide receivers. One is flashy and boisterous, and the other is quiet and calm.
The four-time Pro Bowl guard, who has battled mental health and locker room issues, spoke publicly for the first time Saturday since signing with the team in May.
Jon Gruden wants the Raiders to be tough and smart and versatile, able to adapt to any situation, prideful in the details of work. But this is a team coming off a 4-12 season.
The Raiders wide receiver was placed on the nonfootball injury list Friday, signaling his absence from Saturday’s first full-squad practice. A source called it a “minor issue.”
Brown is known for arriving to training camps in extravagant ways and this year arrived in a hot air balloon.
An NFL Films crew visited Derek Carr’s home Thursday in the East Bay, recording footage of the Raiders quarterback as training camp nears.
The team recently held a quarterly lunch with workers that included a steel beam signing ceremony, he said.
Almost 1,500 pages of documents obtained by the Review-Journal reveal the possible plans for staging the three-day 2020 NFL draft in Las Vegas next April.