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Getty Images The Saints have seen tight ends catch a fair number of passes from Drew Brees since Jimmy Graham was traded ahead of the 2015 season, but Benjamin Watson Coby Fleener and others didn’t make the same kind of offensive impact that Graham made in New Orleans. There’s hope that Jared...

Getty Images Wide receiver Jalin Marshall made enough of an impression on the Raiders during a tryout last weekend that the team signed him to the 90-man roster on Tuesday. That positive impression did not last long, however. Marshall was waived on Thursday. Marshall had another short stay...

Getty Images The Raiders have signed college free agent Brian Burt, the team announced Friday. That gets their roster back to 90 players. The receiver played two seasons at Fresno State. He appeared in seven games at for the Bulldogs, including six as a senior in 2018. He had two kickoff...

Getty Images A low-cost airline denies that it will supply the naming rights to the new stadium to be inhabited by the soon-to-be Las Vegas Raiders. Via the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Allegiant Air has filed for trademark protection of the term “Allegiant Stadium.” The company claims that the...

Getty Images The Raiders announced Bob Zeman has died. Zeman was 82. The Browns made Zeman a 10th-round choice in 1959, but he never played for Cleveland. He instead played for the Chargers and Broncos from 1960-66. He made 17 interceptions in 82 career games. Following his retirement, Zeman...

Getty Images The rise and demise of the Alliance of American Football will inevitably lead to multiple documentaries and, potentially, a feature film — depending on how the remaining legal chapters are written. For now, we’ll rely on the entertaining morsels that periodically will appear...

Getty Images Raiders linebacker Dan Conners, the first draft pick ever signed by the late Al Davis in his capacity as team owner, has died. Conners was 78. Via the San Francisco Chronicle, the three-time AFL All-Star died on April 28 in San Luis Obispo, California. Conners spent 11 seasons...

Getty Images Martavis Bryant plans to apply for reinstatement in the “coming weeks,” the receiver told Dan Graziano of ESPN. The NFL suspended Bryant indefinitely on Dec. 14 for violating the terms of his conditional reinstatement from a previous ban. It’s his third suspension in four seasons...

Getty Images The first two defensive players in the draft have something else in common: They’re the co-favorites to be named the 2019 defensive rookie of the year. Caesers Palace has set the odds at +400 for 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa and +400 for Jets defensive lineman Quinnen Williams...

Getty Images The Raiders cleared out the unwanted members of the personnel department and are in the process of rebuilding the front office as they see fit. Per multiple reports, the team is hiring Dwayne Joseph away from the Philadelphia Eagles to serve as their director of pro scouting after...

Getty Images The Raiders have signed the player who scored the first touchdown in Alliance of American Football history. The agent for wide receiver Jalin Marshall announced on Twitter that his client has agreed to a deal with Oakland. Marshall last appeared on an NFL roster last offseason...

Getty Images As a quick receiver who is under six feet tall, Hunter Renfrow looks like the kind of player who makes his living playing out of the slot and that’s what he did in Clemson on the way to becoming a Raiders fifth-round pick this year. The Raiders don’t want Renfrow limiting himself...

Clelin Ferrell was a big surprise as the fourth player off the board in the NFL draft, a pick that had people scratching their heads and wondering what Raiders coach Jon Gruden and G.M. Mike Mayock were thinking. Ferrell can’t do anything to change any minds until the games start for real, but...

Getty Images Mike Mayock’s first draft since becoming the General Manager of the Raiders is in the books and one thing that became clear as it unfolded was that Mayock enjoyed his first scouting trip in his new job. Mayock went to the college title game between Clemson and Alabama and wound up...

Getty Images Friday’s PFT Live often includes Barstool Big Cat as a co-host, which gives him a chance to chime in on some of the things that happened earlier in the week. This week, we opted for a different format for the week in review. It went like this: I read a quote, and then Big Cat had...

Getty Images The Raiders signed Trent Brown to a four-year, $66 million deal as a free agent after watching him play well at left tackle for the Patriots last season, but they won’t be putting him in the same spot on their offensive line. Raiders head coach Jon Gruden said on Friday that the...

Getty Images Raiders head coach Jon Gruden said in March that the team planned to exercise its option on safety Karl Joseph‘s contract for 2020, but the Raiders reversed course over the last couple of months and opted not to go through with it. Gruden downplayed the significance of that...

Getty Images The Raiders have started signing members of their draft class with rookie minicamp getting underway on Friday and they’ve also announced 10 undrafted free agents signings. The group includes wide receiver Keelan Doss, whose big numbers at UC-Davis had many people expecting him to...

Getty Images Raiders running back Isaiah Crowell tore his Achilles earlier this week and the team formally ended his season on Friday by placing him on injured reserve. In between those two developments, the Raiders re-signed veteran running back Doug Martin to join first-round pick Josh...

Getty Images The Raiders are moving on from Dave McCloughan, another scout with long-time ties to the organization, Michael Gehlken of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Kent McCloughan, Dave’s father, was a Raiders cornerback from 1965-70 and served as a scout for the team from 1972-2012...