Coming off the heels of last season when their first-round pick wasn’t around till two days after the season started, this year the Raiders want to get a jump on things and sign first-round pick RB Darren McFadden before training camp even starts. The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the team and McFadden could [...]
The Raiders have high hopes for the 2008 season, and ESPN says that the team could be a surprise team this season. Hashmarks has the Raiders on the list, here is the commentary on them:
This is nothing more than a wild hunch. Sure, the Raiders look to still be the most dysfunctional team in football. [...]
The Raiders signed veteran free-agent quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo yesterday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move brings the career backup QB back to the team that drafted him and it’s expected he’ll battle Andrew Walter for the position behind starter JaMarcus Russell. The Raiders originally selected Tuiasosopo in the second round of the 2001 [...]
The Raiders have had enough of safety Stuart Schweigert, as the team released him today. He lost his starting job in the middle of the season to Hiram Eugene. The team went out and grabbed free agent Gibril Wilson, and moved Michael Huff to safety, making Schweigert expendable. He was with the [...]
Former Raiders center Curtis Whitley was found dead Sunday night in his trailer home in West Texas. Whitley, who was 39, played for three teams, including the Chargers, Panthers and Raiders from 1992-1997. He did have a history of substance abuse, and while there were no signs of foul play, the death remains [...]
The Raiders have added another piece to the defense, as today they came to terms on a 1-year deal with DE Greg Spires. The veteran will compete for downs as pass rusher on the right side of the Raiders line. Spires became a free agent after he was released by Tampa Bay in [...]
Having won only 19 games in the past 5 seasons, the Raiders are looking for a spark to their offense……
Hopefully that spark will be supplied by last years #1 draft pick JaMarcus Russell and this years #4 over-all pick in the draft Darren McFadden.
McFadden received his first taste of NFL football at the rookie mini-camp [...]
The Raiders offseason of looking to upgrade their defense continued on Tuesday, as the team came to terms with free-agent linebacker Edgerton Hartwell. The 30-year-old hasn’t been much of a factor, as he has been hurt most of the last three years, and didn’t play at all last season after being cut by the Bengals [...]
