The Associated Press sports reporter Willie Ramirez analyzes every NFL wild-card playoff game, with odds, trends and final scores.
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Wide receiver Davante Adams and running back Josh Jacobs were named to the first Associated Press All-Pro team on Friday. Kicker Daniel Carlson also earned first-team honors.
With the release last week of guard John Simpson, six of the seven players the Raiders took in the 2020 NFL draft no longer are with the team.
Bettors were in position to hit an elusive middle — win on both sides — of the Bills-Vikings game after Buffalo fluctuated from a 3- to 7½-point favorite during the week.
His eyes were red and his voice cracking. Derek Carr swayed from one side of a podium to the next, searching for answers that aren’t there.
Jeff Saturday, who had never coached beyond the high school level, was awarded the game ball after the Indianapolis Colts upset the Raiders on Sunday at Allegiant Stadium.
Raiders star Davante Adams said after the team fell to 2-7 that “guys have got to play for one another. … Don’t got enough guys that are fully bought into that right now.”
How the Raiders performed in a loss to the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday at Allegiant Stadium.
Three takeaways from the Raiders’ loss to the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday at Allegiant Stadium.
One play doesn’t define a game. But if it did in the Raiders’ loss to the Colts, it would have been a fumble that linebacker Darien Butler probably should have recovered late in the game.
Linebacker Denzel Perryman was questionable for the game, but Clelin Ferrell’s scratch is a surprise.
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Maxx Crosby said he was leaving it up to the universe to not have the birth of his first child interfere with his availability for the Raiders.
It’s only Week 6, but the NFL will serve up a pair of possible conference championship games Sunday in Bills-Chiefs and Eagles-Cowboys.
The Washington Commanders are 1-point favorites over the Chicago Bears at several Las Vegas sportsbooks for “Thursday Night Football.”