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Getty Images The Raiders are trying to trade quarterback Marcus Mariota. The Patriots are trying to acquire a starting quarterback. Could Mariota end up in New England. The betting odds at SportsBetting.com have Mariota as the favorite to take the Patriots’ first snap of the regular season...

Getty Images Raider cornerback Kemah Siverand‘s first chance of making an NFL team went up in smoke last summer and another one may be impacted by an arrest in Houston. The Houston Police Department announced on Monday that Siverand was arrested after a street racing incident just after...

USA TODAY Sports Rich Gannon is not returning to CBS for a 17th season as an NFL game analyst, the network confirmed to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. CBS chose not to renew Gannon’s contract, making him a free agent. The network has not named a replacement, but Adam Archuleta and...

Getty Images David Irving re-signed with the Raiders last week, keeping him with the franchise that brought him back to the league. Irving had been suspended indefinitely in March 2019 for repeated violations of the league’s old substance abuse policy. But he was reinstated in October and...

Getty Images The in-plain-sight clue came from a comment Panthers owner David Tepper made in the All or Nothing season that focused on his football team. Tepper was determined to make what he believed to be upgrades at the three key positions that determine success or failure of a football...

Getty Images The Steelers, fully aware that they may not have enough around quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to justify bringing him back for another year, suddenly seem to be ambivalent about an ongoing relationship. So if (and it’s still a fairly big if) the Steelers decide to sever ties with...

Getty Images The Colts have agreed to a trade that will net them Carson Wentz from the Eagles for a pair of draft picks, but Wentz wasn’t the only quarterback on their radar the last few weeks. They were bidding for Matthew Stafford before the Lions agreed to trade him to the Rams and a report...

Getty Images Defensive end David Irving took a couple of visits with other teams this month, but he isn’t going to be signing with them. The Raiders announced on Thursday that they have re-signed Irving. He had visited with the Lions and Colts. Irving signed to their practice squad in October...

Getty Images Tuesday’s PFT Live included an experimental exercise that could have been good, or it could have been bad. It ended up being more good than bad. Or, more accurately, it was fun for us to do. Whether it was good or bad is for you to decide. We played a word association game, based...

Getty Images The Raiders may trade backup quarterback Marcus Mariota, and New England has been mentioned as a possible destination. Mike Reiss of ESPN sees the Patriots as a potential trading partner for the Raiders, noting that Mariota’s $10.6 million salary would easily fit under the...

Getty Images Wide receiver Tyrell Williams didn’t play any games for the Raiders during the 2020 season and it looks like he won’t be playing any for them in 2021 either. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Raiders plan to release at the start of the new league year. That plan would...

Getty Images Of the various looming free agents in Pittsburgh, one name creates the most intrigue: JuJu Smith-Schuster. The team’s MVP in 2018 (a vote that prompted receiver Antonio Brown to force his way out of town), Smith-Schuster’s rookie deal is expiring. Absent a new contract or the...

Getty Images Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson showed rare candor this week when he went on the Dan Patrick Show and said, among other things, that he’s frustrated by getting hit too much and that he’s not sure if he’s available in a trade. That may have rubbed Seahawks management the wrong...

USA TODAY Sports After seven seasons apart, Mike Zimmer is reuniting with one of his former assistant coaches. NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero report the Vikings are hiring Paul Guenther as a senior defensive assistant. Guenther was most recently the Raiders’ defensive coordinator...

Getty Images The Raiders are going with an internal option to replace tight ends coach Frank Smith, who departed the organization for the Chargers last month. Vinny Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the Raiders will promote Austin King to the position. King was Dayton’s...

USA TODAY Sports The Raiders looked like a contending team when they started the season 6-3, highlighted by a 40-32 victory over the Chiefs in Week 5. But then things changed, with the Raiders dropping five of their last seven to finish 8-8. Las Vegas conceivably could have finished 7-9 if not...

Getty Images Amid talk that the Raiders may trade backup quarterback Marcus Mariota, there’s also been talk about the possibility that starting quarterback Derek Carr could be on the trade block. Carr’s brother says that isn’t happening. David Carr, the former NFL quarterback who now works for...

Getty Images Although it seems more likely that a trade of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson would happen next year at the earliest, the situation seems to be developing quickly. Fueled by Wilson’s blunt but tactful comments to Dan Patrick, some are wondering whether a trade could happen in...

Getty Images A report from TheAthletic.com on Monday indicated the Raiders would rather trade Marcus Mariota than Derek Carr. That was followed by Ian Rapoport of NFL Media on Monday who reports the Raiders are receiving “legitimate and real” trade interest in Mariota. Mariota has a $10.63...

Getty Images The Raiders added a player to their offensive line group on Tuesday. The team announced the signing of guard Lester Cotton. Cotton signed with the team as an undrafted free agent in 2019 and played one special teams snap in his lone appearance of the regular season. He remained...