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Antonio Brown has left the AFC North. His cousin has arrived. Oklahoma receiver Marquis “Hollywood” Brown is the 25th pick in the 2019 draft, joining the Ravens. Brown, who suffered a foot injury in the NCAA semifinal game, is a speedy receiver who can be a difference maker for a Baltimore...

Getty Images With three first-round picks at their disposal, there was some thought that the Raiders might be involved in some trades before Thursday night came to an end. Oakland wound up standing pat, however, and they made their final pick of the first round at No. 27. They selected former...

Raiders General Manager Mike Mayock said he made the decision to send scouts home three weeks ago to close ranks and prevent leaks. He informed them of the decision April 19, and the Raiders did not seek their input before making their three first-round selections. “I made the decision to do it...

Getty Images On Thursday night, Dwayne Haskins will become only the third Ohio State quarterback to be selected in the first round, barring something incredibly unexpected. In a Monday interview with #PFTPM, Haskins outlined the teams that have shown interest in him. “A lot of teams,” Haskins...

Getty Images The running back position has been devalued in the NFL in recent years, but one running back appears poised to be snapped up no later than the end of the first round. Alabama running back Josh Jacobs has been mocked to draft slots in the 20s in most mock drafts, with the Raiders...

Those area scouts the Raiders sent home are missing all the fun. Mike Silver of NFL Network reports that the Raiders have conducted practice drafts this week, with G.M. Mike Mayock and coach Jon Gruden making the picks under the pressures of the same time clock that will be used on Thursday...

Getty Images Marshawn Lynch is reportedly walking away from the NFL. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Lynch is not planning to play football again. Lynch spent the last two seasons with the Raiders and is not under contract for the 2019 season. Lynch has stepped away from the game in the...

Getty Images Sure, this is a football website. But we appreciate the skills and abilities required to play hockey. And NBC holds comprehensive hockey video rights. And we include playoff hockey highlights in PFT Live. And last night’s games were compelling enough to justify putting the hockey...

Getty Images Monday’s PFTOT didn’t have to look too hard for five topics. We went to the top five picks in the draft, and we devoted one topic to each of the teams. From the Cardinals to 49ers to Jets to Raiders to Bucs, Simms and I talked about what we think each team will do, based on what...

Getty Images Jon Gruden may not want the Raiders’ scouts to know what he’s thinking heading into the draft, but he does want 31 other teams to know that if they have a trade offer to make, give him a call. Gruden said his team could do anything in the draft, including trading up, trading down...

Getty Images On Friday, the Raiders took the highly unusual step of clearing the building of most scouts, telling them to stay home until after the draft. On Monday, the Raiders floated an excuse for sending employees home with pay. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, the Raiders may be...

Getty Images The NFL scheduling formula wasn’t kind to the Raiders but was very kind to the Jets. The Raiders will travel more miles in 2019 than any other team, and the Jets will travel the fewest in the NFL. According to TheScore.com, the Raiders’ total travel distance in the regular season...

Getty Images In the wake of Raiders General Manager Mike Mayock and coach Jon Gruden sending the scouts home to keep them from leaking any information about the team’s draft board, Mayock’s daughter says that’s par for the course for her very secretive dad. Leigh Mayock has previously told the...

Getty Images Five years ago, the Raiders found future Hall of Famer Khalil Mack with the fifth overall pick in the draft. This time around, the Raiders have earned the fourth pick in round one — and the pressure to find another Mack has increased, given that they traded him to the Bears in...

Getty Images Reggie McKenzie is out and Mike Mayock is in as G.M. of the Raiders, and the scouts have been expecting major changes — even before today’s strange story that the Raiders have sent their scouts home because they don’t know who they can trust not to leak sensitive information...

Getty Images When the Raiders sent home their scouting staff a week before the draft, it was a vote of no-confidence from coach Jon Gruden and General Manager Mike Mayock for the scouts, most of whom were hired when Reggie McKenzie was running the front office. But Gruden and Mayock still have...

Getty Images In Week 16, the NFL will stage a special pre-Christmas Saturday triple header. And none of the games have been selected for that spot, yet. Five Week 16 games have been earmarked for those three spots, to begin at 1:00 p.m. ET, 4:30 p.m. ET, and 8:15 p.m. ET: Lions at Broncos...

Getty Images Fans in Oakland are going to have a chance to get used to not having the Raiders around. After opening the season with home games against the Broncos (Sept. 9) and Chiefs (Sept. 15), the Raiders don’t play another home game until Week Nine against the Lions (Nov. 3). That long...

Getty Images San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle said his tweet to Antonio Brown from New Year’s Eve was at the prodding of a fellow member of the 49ers offense. Via KNBR, Kittle said on Wednesday that his “Sup?” tweet directed at Brown was a dare from quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo...

Plenty of people cared deeply about Wednesday’s release of the schedule. Broncos coach Vic Fangio is not one of them. “I had no reaction, really,” Fango told reporters on Thursday. “I’m only interested to see who we play the first two weeks because that’s who you’ll start planning on in the...