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Who is Trent Brown? The Raiders believe Brown is the player who protected Tom Brady‘s blindside last season. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have made Brown the highest-paid offensive lineman in history. Brown vows that’s who he is, too, not the player who the 49ers gave up on. Questions about his...

Getty Images We’ve seen several quarterbacks skilled at running with the ball enter the NFL in recent years, but Derek Carr has not been on the list. Carr has run 148 times for 413 yards over the course of his career, but head coach Jon Gruden thinks that’s an area where the quarterback can...

Mr. Big Chest is ready to go at Raiders camp. Wide receiver Antonio Brown was placed on the non-football injury list after reporting to his first training camp with his new team on Friday. Word was that the issue that led to his spot on that list was minor and those reports were confirmed on...

Getty Images Hard Knocks producers already have a somewhat surprising employee termination to televise nationally in the first episode. Chris Warren III led the Raiders in preseason rushing last year before landing on injured reserve. He has now landed on the waiver wire. The Raiders have...

Richie Incognito has made a mess of things in previous stops. He’s hoping to make amends in Oakland. The new Raiders guard — who will miss the first two games of this season because of a suspension for his latest off-field incident — told reporters he wants to change the way people think of...

Getty Images The Raiders are trying to rebuild an offensive line, and they’ll be without another key piece for a bit. According to Scott Bair of NBCSportsBayArea.com, Raiders left guard Denzelle Good had back surgery five weeks ago, and will begin camp on the physically unable to perform list...

Getty Images Wide receiver Antonio Brown arrived to Raiders training camp in a hot air balloon on Friday, which is the kind of touch that’s more likely to be welcomed by those in the entertainment world than team executives. Thankfully for Brown, there are plenty of the former in Napa this...

Wide receiver Antonio Brown made a dramatic entrance to his first Raiders camp on Friday, but the bigger development of the day came a short time later. Brown’s trip to training camp in a hot air balloon was filmed and the wideout closed the video by walking toward the camera to say it was time...

Raiders receiver Antonio Brown arrived at training camp via balloon on Friday. The bubble burst, however, when it was disclosed that he’ll start his first Oakland training camp on the non-football injury list. But there’s good news: Michael Gehlken of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that...

Getty Images Yes, free-agent tackle Donald Penn is visiting Washington. No, it doesn’t look like a signing is imminent. And, no, Penn’s visit isn’t a knee-jerk reaction to left tackle Trent Williams‘ holdout. Speaking with reporters on Friday, coach Jay Gruden confirmed that Penn is in town...

Getty Images Trent Williams hasn’t shown up in Washington. Plan B is Ereck Flowers. Plan B may not be Ereck Flowers. Ian Rapoport of the NFL reports that veteran free-agent tackle Donald Penn will the team. Cut by the Raiders after the 2018 season, the 36-year-old Penn has been available for...

Getty Images They may no longer be the Oakland Raiders by the time training camp rolls around next summer, but the Raiders may yet call California home for their preseason workouts. According to Paul Gutierrez of ESPN.com, the Raiders are likely to remain in Napa for training camp next year...

Getty Images The Oakland Raiders will be without fullback Kevin Smith for the first several weeks of training camp due to a knee injury that will land Smith on the physically unable to perform list, according to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network. Smith was injured during training and could miss...

Getty Images Free agent cornerback Dexter McDonald worked out for the Dolphins on Tuesday, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. McDonald, 27, spent last season on injured reserve with an ankle injury. The Raiders made McDonald a seventh-round choice in 2015. He played 27 games with six starts...

Getty Images Tickets for the Packers-Raiders preseason game in Winnipeg are expensive, and unsurprisingly they’re not selling well. John Graham, who is handling the local promotion in Winnipeg, admitted to the Canadian Press that ticket sales are behind where he thought they’d be at this...

Getty Images The Cowboys haven’t reached the NFC Championship Game since winning their last Super Bowl in 1995. Yet, they remain America’s Team and the World’s Team for that matter. Nine of the 50 highest-rated sports TV broadcasts in 2018 were regular-season games featuring the Cowboys...

Longtime NFL linebacker Navorro Bowman retired in June. He signed with the 49ers today, but that doesn’t mean he’s coming back. The league’s transaction wire listed his signing with the 49ers today, but according to Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle it’s just so he can officially...

Getty Images Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy says his team’s efforts to trade for Khalil Mack a year ago were thwarted primarily by the Raiders’ perception that the Bears would have a higher first-round draft pick. Murphy told 105.7 The Fan that the Packers made a big offer to the...

Getty Images The Dolphins announced they claimed receiver Saeed Blacknall off waivers from the Raiders. Blacknall, 23, has played in one career game. He originally signed with the Raiders as an undrafted free agent out of Penn State in 2018. The team waived him out of the preseason...

Getty Images The Trump administration is possibly trying to help the NFL. Or, possibly, it’s trying to hurt Oakland. Daniel Kaplan of TheAthletic.com reports that there’s a belief within the city’s legal team that the Department of Justice has butted in to the antitrust lawsuit challenging the...