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Getty Images Developing the 256-game regular season schedule in a fair and balanced fashion isn’t the easiest task to accomplish each spring. When trying to account for stadium availability, broadcast partners, international games and other variables, random quirks can surface in the different...

Getty Images Given their lack of pass rush in 2018, many people feel that the Raiders will be selecting at least one player to address that need when they put their three first-round picks to use later this month. Two of the best pass rushers in this draft class are spending time with the team...

Getty Images From 2013 through 2016, the quarterback market stagnated. From 2017 through now, the quarterback market has exploded. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers enjoyed an extended stretch as the highest-paid player in the NFL, with a new-money average of $22 million per year, until Colts...

Getty Images Raiders receiver Antonio Brown has settled a lawsuit arising from allegations that he threw furniture from a balcony at a Miami apartment building, endangering a toddler and his grandfather. Does that settlement expose Brown to scrutiny under the Personal Conduct Policy? The...

Getty Images Two down, 254 to go. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune, citing WGN-AM 720’s Harry Teinowitz, the Bears will play the Raiders in London on Oct. 6, nailing down the date of a game we already knew was happening there. The league has also announced that the Packers would...

Getty Images The Raiders handled some of their paperwork as they opened their offseason program, signing three of their exclusive-rights free agents. The team announced that wide receiver Marcell Ateman, kicker Daniel Carlson, and tackle Justin Murray signed their one-year deals today. They...

Getty Images The Raiders have three first-round selections. They have worked out top quarterback prospects Kyler Murray and Dwayne Haskins. The Raiders, though, are not expected to use a first-day choice on a quarterback, Michael Gehlken of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. “Behind the...

Getty Images Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown has settled the lawsuit brought by a man who says his child was nearly hit by furniture that Brown threw off a balcony. Brown and the plaintiff have agreed to a confidential settlement and the case is now over, TMZ.com reports. The incident...

Getty Images Teams have a couple of days left to host draft prospects for visits at their facilities and the Raiders will be spending some of that time with one of the top defensive players in this year’s class. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that former LSU linebacker Devin White will meet...

Getty Images So if the deadline imposed by quarterback Russell Wilson on the Seahawks comes and goes without a new contract, what happens next? Here’s one thing that should happen: Other teams without short-list franchise quarterbacks should call the Seahawks to inquire regarding what it would...

Getty Images Defensive end Benson Mayowa is coming back to Oakland for a second stint with the Raiders. According to multiple reports, Mayowa is returning to the team on a one-year deal. The total value of the deal can exceed $3 million. Mayowa joined the Raiders off of waivers in August 2014...

Getty Images The guy who runs the Raiders has some advice for the guy who runs a draft that ultimately will be run by the guy who runs the Raiders. “Don’t mess it up, dude,” Raiders coach Jon Gruden told Raiders G.M. Mike Mayock (probably with a word other than “mess”), according to Mayock. “I...

Getty Images The Raiders once again proclaimed their love for Derek Carr. And once again, talked about drafting his replacement. General Manager Mike Mayock walked that seemingly paradoxical line again during his pre-draft press conference, maintaining that incumbent Derek Carr is their guy...

Getty Images Stanford running back Bryce Love was at the Raiders’ local Pro Day, but wasn’t able to work out because of the torn ACL he suffered in the final regular season game. And while he knows his injury will hurt his draft stock, he’s hoping teams spend more time looking at what he did...

Getty Images Simms, as you know by now, works only four days per week. Which means that, on Friday, I’ve got to do PFTOT on my own. Today’s Simms-free effort is attached, with five different topics covered. First, there’s more on the Leonard Fournette arrest as it relates to his guaranteed...

Getty Images The Raiders are committed to Derek Carr. Unless they aren’t. The more accurate statement would be “until they aren’t,” because G.M. Mike Mayock made it clear on Thursday that Carr will continue as the team’s quarterback for as long as the team believe that it’s in the team’s best...

Getty Images When ESPN launches its new-look, Witten-less coverage of the NFL in August, the first officially unofficial game could quite possibly feature the debut of 2018 Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray. The second week of the 2019 preseason begins on Thursday, August 15, with the...

Getty Images Antonio Brown seems to realize he’s losing the battle of social media. So now he’s in retreat. After he was widely criticized for an Instagram post about former teammate JuJu Smith-Schuster, Brown deleted the post. Now he’s taken to Twitter to castigate the media for giving him...

Getty Images The Raiders are kicking the tires on a former first-rounder, with divisional experience to boot. According to the league’s transaction wire, former Broncos pass-rusher Shane Ray visited the Raiders today. Ray, the 23rd overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, was allowed to become a...

Getty Images Michigan linebacker Devin Bush already has visited the Giants, Bengals and Buccaneers among others. The Raiders also are on his itinerary, a source tells PFT. The Raiders have three first-round picks — four, 24 and 27. LSU linebacker Devin White is projected to go before Bush...