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Getty Images Cornerback Hamp Cheevers played for the Falcons in last week’s game against the Dolphins, but his next preseason outing will be for a different team. The Raiders announced that they claimed Cheevers of off waivers on Sunday. Cheevers initially signed with the Titans after going...

Getty Images As Raiders receiver Antonio Brown continues to push one of the strangest, most obstinate arguments in sports history, refusing to wear one of the many approved helmet models available to the 2,880 players currently on NFL rosters because he wants to use his own outdated piece of...

Getty Images The Raiders had done a great job of keeping the extent of the Antonio Brown situation under wraps, until all hell broke loose on Friday. After Saturday’s preseason game against the Rams, Raiders coach Jon Gruden said the most that he has, but still not very much, about the...

Nathan Peterman may be growing on Jon Gruden, but Peterman has yet to leapfrog Mike Glennon on the Raiders’ depth chart. Yes, we take this break from As The Antonio Turns to point out that the Raiders indeed have other players, who are indeed practicing and jockeying for positioning on the...

Getty Images Sometimes, the wheels of NFL justice grind slowly. Sometimes, they move like grease through a goose. In the Antonio Brown helmet grievance, the latter appears to be more likely to happen. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, a decision regarding whether Brown will be...

Getty Images As the dust settles on what became an unexpectedly crazy Friday afternoon, some clarity has emerged regarding Raiders receiver Antonio Brown‘s effort to continue to wear his helmet of choice. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Brown hopes to continue to wear the Schutt...

Getty Images The Raiders apparently knew where Antonio Brown was today. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Raiders receiver won’t have his grievance hearing next week. Brown instead had it Friday, meeting for two hours regarding whether he can wear his old helmet. Mark Maske of the...

Antonio Brown posted on Instagram after news broke that he has threatened to quit if he can’t wear his old helmet. The Raiders receiver had a two-hour grievance hearing Friday regarding his helmet. “I love the game; I love the hustle,” Brown wrote. “Young-in got doe he can leave the league but...

Getty Images Mr. Big Chest is threatening to take his helmet and go home. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Raiders receiver Antonio Brown has informed team officials that, unless he gets to wear his old helmet, he will not play football again. Schefter also reports that Brown believes that...

Getty Images The Raiders haven’t weighed in on any of the helmet-related stories concerning Antonio Brown on Friday afternoon, but they did announce a roster move while the rest of the football world was wondering what’s going to happen next with the wideout. The team announced the signing of...

Getty Images It had seemed that the Raiders were treading lightly with receiver Antonio Brown‘s absence in order to keep him from looking foolish for freezing his feet — a fate possibly even more embarrasing than stepping on a George Foreman grill while it’s cooking your morning bacon. It now...

Getty Images The way that Raiders receiver Antonio Brown injured his feet is strange. The way the Raiders are handling the situation is stranger. Brown froze his feet by failing to wear proper foot protection in a cryotherapy chamber. He has missed nine of 10 practices in camp, with no clear...

Getty Images Raiders owner Mark Davis did an interview with The Athletic during which he crapped all over the Athletics. The transcript of the session with Vic Tafur contains enough profanity to make Raiders coach Jon Gruden think, “Man, that guy swears a lot.” And Davis directs some of it at...

The Raiders expect to be without right guard Gabe Jackson for roughly eight weeks, Vic Tafur of TheAthletic.com reports. Jackson injured the medial collateral ligament in his left knee, Tafur said. After Jackson got rolled up on during the team period and left on a cart, coach Jon Gruden...

Getty Images Mark Davis would like the Oakland A’s to know he is sorry. About his language. After a profane tirade about his baseball neighbors and how they complicated his life in Oakland, the Raiders owner felt bad about his word choice. “I am not sorry for the things I said,” Davis told...

Getty Images Receiver Antonio Brown and running back Le'Veon Bell (who caught plenty of passes) are gone. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger wants them also to be forgotten. Whether that happens depends on the performance of the players who will take their place. “I’m really excited about what we...

Getty Images The Raiders and Rams got through their first day of their joint practices without any big fights, but Thursday’s session has been a bit different. Per multiple reports from the practice, Raiders tackle Tyler Roemer got into it with members of the Rams and punches were thrown...

Getty Images There is no word yet on the extent of Gabe Jackson‘s leg injury, but it doesn’t sound good. “We’re concerned about it, obviously,” Raiders coach Jon Gruden said, via Scott Bair of NBCSportsBayArea.com. Gruden did not want to speculate on the injury but said Jackson got rolled up...

Getty Images Wide receiver Antonio Brown remained off the practice field for the Raiders on Thursday and he’ll be inactive through the weekend as the team will be playing the Rams in their first preseason game of the year on Saturday night. As first reported by Chris Simms on PFT Live and...

The funniest moment of the first episode of Hard Knocks on Tuesday came when rookie Johnathan Abram was seated across from quarterback Derek Carr at a restaurant. Abram asked Carr the pronunciation of “salmon.” It was hard to tell whether Abram was serious or joking when he debated Carr about...