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Getty Images The big news at Oakland training camp on Tuesday was the return of Antonio Brown. Somewhere further down the page came a series of roster moves that included cutting punter Johnny Townsend a little more than a year after drafting him in the fifth round. The Raiders also waived...

Getty Images The Schutt AiR Advantage helmet has gotten plenty of free publicity this week. Too bad they quit making it eight years ago. Agent Drew Rosenhaus tells PFT that Raiders receiver Antonio Brown has located “a few” Schutt AiR Advantage helmets made in 2010. Those helmets will be...

Getty Images Fullback Keith Smith passed his physical, and the Raiders activated him from the non-football injury list Tuesday, the team announced. Smith injured his knee while training before camp opened. Smith is entering his second season with the Raiders after playing his first four...

Hard Knocks didn’t wait long to address Antonio Brown‘s feet Tuesday night. Three minutes into the second episode of the season, the Raiders receiver’s burned feet took center stage. “Do you want to see it?” Brown asked the NFL Films crew. “Are you sure you want to see it?” Brown showed the...

Getty Images After an arbitrator ruled against Antonio Brown in his helmet grievance, the Raiders wideout said that he was “working on getting back to full health and looking forward to rejoining my teammates on the field.” Getting back on the field isn’t going to happen immediately, but Brown...

Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown is on the hunt for a helmet of his preferred model that the NFL will let him wear. And he’s offering a memorabilia trade if he can get one. Brown wrote on Twitter today that if someone will give him a Schutt AiR Advantage helmet that fits him and is less than...

Getty Images It’s International Left-Handers Day. Which for a pair of left-handers who co-host PFT Live made it a very important day. Even though the right-handers who rule the world relegated our one day of the year to August 13. We commemorated the occasion by drafting the all-time best...

Getty Images The Raiders suddenly have a helmet available, gently used. According to Scott Bair of NBCSportsBayArea.com, the Raiders have waived punter Johnny Townsend. That takes care of their punting competition for the moment, since rookie A.J. Cole’s the lone remaining punter on the...

Getty Images The ultimate reality show now brings us the ultimate scanvenger hunt. And it remains to be seen whether Raiders receiver Antonio Brown will find a suitable Schutt AiR Advantage. Beyond the obvious fact that the helmet needs to fit Brown, it also needs to be less than 10 years old...

Getty Images Jason Witten quit football last year, retiring to go into the ESPN Monday Night Football booth. He’s back, but his beloved helmet isn’t. Witten spent the first 15 years of his career wearing two Air Advantage helmets by Schutt that he affectionately called Betsy. The helmet no...

Getty Images The gavel has fallen quickly, and decisively. And just in time to be addressed by this week’s episode of Hard Knocks. (Eye roll emoji. If there is one.) PFT has confirmed that a neutral, independent arbitrator has ruled against Raiders receiver Antonio Brown in a grievance filed...

Getty Images The arbitrator has spoken, and so has Antonio Brown. It’s just not clear what Brown is saying. “While I disagree with the arbitrator’s decision, I’m working on getting back to full health and looking forward to rejoining my teammates on the field,” Brown said on Instagram...

Getty Images Raiders receiver Antonio Brown has a potential helmet loophole, if he chooses to try to use it. Brown can’t use his preferred helmet — a Schutt AiR Advantage — in 2019, because that specific helmet is more than 10 years old. However, because the NFL has not affirmatively banned...

Getty Images The specific helmet Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown brought with him from Pittsburgh and wanted to wear this season in Oakland has been disallowed. But Brown may still get to wear the model of helmet he wants to wear. PFT has confirmed with a source close to the situation that...

On Tuesday night, Hard Knocks either will provide transparency and clarity to the Antonio Brown helmet fight, or it won’t. Based on last week’s episode, bet the under. Peter King made this observation about the situation in his latest Football Morning in America column: “‘Hard Knocks’ is...

The NFL has drawn a line in the sand with regards to Antonio Brown. Without even mentioning Antonio Brown. League spokesman Brian McCarthy just tweeted out what amounts to a policy statement, as it pertains to Antonio Brown’s grievance and bluster about wearing his old helmet which hasn’t been...

Getty Images Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown is not the only NFL star who’s being forced to change helmets this season. Just the only one who’s threatening to quit football over it. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has also been forced to change helmets this season as the NFL eliminates...

Getty Images A decision is expected this week in the grievance filed by Raiders receiver Antonio Brown over the league’s refusal to let him wear a helmet that is too old to be recertified for 2019 — and that Schutt no longer manufactures. If/when (when) Brown loses, what happens next? In a...

Getty Images Raiders receiver Antonio Brown wants to wear the helmet he wore during nine seasons with the Steelers. His insistence on getting his way has become one of the strangest off-field stories in recent memory, if not ever. Here’s an interesting question about the situation: Did the...

Getty Images One of the first lessons in law school goes like this: When the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. When the law is on your side, pound on the law. When neither is on your side, pound on the table. Antonio Brown‘s legal team is pounding on the table. After nearly a week...