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Getty Images There’s been a common thread linking wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster‘s offseason media sessions together and it remained in place on Wednesday. Smith-Schuster was asked questions about former teammate Antonio Brown and repeated his earlier answer about there being “no hard...

Getty Images The Raiders brought in a couple of new players for the final days of their offseason program. The team announced that they have signed wide receiver Montay Crockett and cornerback Isaiah Langley to their 90-man roster. Defensive back Makinton Dorleant and safety Montrel Meander...

The Oakland Raiders will be the subjects of this year’s Hard Knocks. The NFL announced today that the NFL Films cameras will be in the Raiders’ camp for the show, which will air on HBO beginning August 6. No teams wanted to do Hard Knocks this year, but NFL rules allow the league to force a...

Getty Images Raiders owner Mark Davis didn’t want his team to be the subject of Hard Knocks in 2019. Coach Jon Gruden tried to pass the burden to the Lions. Not that it’s official that the Raiders will be featured on the HBO/NFL Films reality series, the Raiders aren’t saying much at all. The...

The announcement that the Raiders have drawn the Hard Knocks short straw came with no reaction from Raiders coach Jon Gruden. That reaction is coming on Thursday. Gruden will meet with reporters at roughly 3:30 p.m. ET tomorrow, in connection with the team’s mandatory minicamp. And at that...

Contrary to the perception that he’s a bad teammate, Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown has spent his first offseason with the team helping other players get better, on both sides of the ball. Raiders cornerback Daryl Worley said Brown has given the Raiders’ defensive backs scouting reports on...

Getty Images Fans in Canada are having to pay regular-season prices if they want to attend the preseason game between the Packers and Raiders in Winnipeg. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the cheapest tickets available anywhere are $112. That’s far more than the Packers’ other...

Getty Images One of the best pass rushers of the past decade continues to have struggles away from the field. Via TMZ.com, Aldon Smith has been arrested in Mission, Kansas on charges of suspicion of DUI. Pulled over for speeding and illegally changing lanes, police determined that Smith failed...

Defensive coordinator Paul Guenther was the loudest voice in favor of bringing linebacker Vontaze Burfict to the Raiders this offseason and he believes Burfict will “resurrect his career” in Oakland. Proof of that will have to wait until September, but Burfict’s presence is paying off in one...

Getty Images It didn’t take Johnathan Abram long to begin taking first-team reps. It’s exactly what the Raiders expected when they drafted the Mississippi State safety with the 27th overall pick. “He’s smart,” Raiders defensive coordinator Paul Guenther said, via Michael Gehlken of the Las...

Getty Images The Raiders and Packers are heading to Winnipeg this summer. A report on Tuesday indicated that the details had been finalized for an August 22 preseason game between the two teams at the city’s IG Field and the Raiders made an official announcement on Wednesday. It will be the...

Getty Images Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is well past his high school days, but he was still part of prom season this year. Pittsburgh area high school student Anthony Molinaro reached out to Smith-Schuster after he was left without a date for his prom and asked the wideout to...

Getty Images The “Wanna lick? . . . Psyche!” news tease from the Cardinals that resulted, eventually, in the announcement that quarterback Carson Palmer will be added to the team’s Ring of Honor had triggered during the 15 minutes or so after the “so we have some news” tweet speculation that...

Getty Images The St. Louis Blues secured the ability on Monday night to play Gloria for the first time ever following a victory in a Stanley Cup Final game. This ritual of the Blues, who also play Country Roads during most games, caught our attention for a Tuesday PFT Live draft. The topic...

Getty Images Former 49ers linebacker Navorro Bowman has called it a career. Bowman, who didn’t play in the NFL last year, announced his retirement today. The 31-year-old Bowman was once among the best defensive players in the NFL, but injuries robbed him of what should have been some of his...

Getty Images Browns General Manager John Dorsey is reportedly adding another former member of the Packers organization to the team’s personnel department. Albert Breer of SI.com reports that Shaun Herock is close to finalizing a deal that would bring him to Cleveland. Herock most recently...

Getty Images The NFL has finalized details for the Raiders’ “home” preseason game against the Packers in Winnipeg this summer. According to Jeff Hamilton of the Winnipeg Free Press, the Raiders will play the Packers on Thursday, Aug. 22. A Valour FC game is scheduled for that night at...

Getty Images The Raiders soon will play in a stadium in Las Vegas that does not yet have a naming-rights deal. On their way out of Oakland, they’ll spend at least one season in a venue that will carry a new name. The venue in Oakland will for the next three years be known as Ring Central...

Getty Images The Bears have added an offensive lineman with starting experience to the roster. The team announced the signing of T.J. Clemmings on Friday. Offensive lineman Tommy Doles was waived in a corresponding move. Clemmings was a 2015 fourth-round pick by the Vikings and started all 16...

Getty Images Over a quarter of the NFL teams now play in states with legal recreational marijuana. And at the moment, it’s still illegal in the eyes of the NFL. Via NBCChicago.com, the Illinois House on Friday passed a plan 66-47 which will legalize the use of recreational marijuana. Governor...