Third-year running back Zamir White will be given every opportunity to become the Raiders’ starter this season and fill the departed Josh Jacobs’ cleats.
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Dwayne Joseph is the fifth-year director of pro personnel for the Raiders who hopes to become a general manager in the NFL. He discussed his job with the RJ.
We’ve seen enough in seven games — four of them victories — to make it apparent that owner Mark Davis should remove the interim tag from Antonio Pierce’s title.
Jackson Woodard followed coach Barry Odom from Arkansas to Las Vegas, and the junior has responded with a team-leading 104 tackles for the 9-3 Rebels.
The Raiders can’t run the ball on one side and rank 24th in sacks on the other, which has a lot to do with their 1-2 start to the season.
Raiders rookie tight end Michael Mayer set several school records at Notre Dame and has a keen interest in architectural design.
Rookie quarterback Aidan O’Connell impressed enough in the preseason that he should be the pick over Brian Hoyer as Jimmy Garoppolo’s backup to start the season.
Kenyon Drake is in a seventh NFL season and still owns a skill set for which his career has been defined — run it, catch it, whatever is asked.
The team has sent a pretty clear message to players under new general manager Dave Ziegler and head coach Josh McDaniels.
The Hall of Fame football coach was a winner and a Super Bowl champion, and that’s only a small part of his story.
Raiders coach Jon Gruden pretty much knows who he’s taking to the NFL’s 17-game street fight, even if nobody knows how they will match up once the first blows are thrown.
The third-year safety finds himself in that all-too-important window when teams often determine a player’s long-term value.
Aaron Rodgers managed to upstage all that was the NFL draft’s opening round when it was reported the league’s reigning Most Valuable Player wants out of Green Bay.
Headlines from Monday night should have focused on money raised for Darren Waller’s foundation and not some of his teammates failing to wear masks.
Pro day cancellations because of the novel coronavirus have forced NFL prospect Ikem Okeke, a safety from Hawaii who played at Bishop Gorman High School, to get creative.