Raiders report: New linebacker to hit the ground running

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■ Tuesday — Practice, 10:50 a.m.

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Quote of the day

New linebacker K.J. Wright won’t person overmuch catching up to bash erstwhile it comes to learning antiaircraft coordinator Gus Bradley’s system.

Bradley was successful complaint of the Seahawks’ defence erstwhile Wright was drafted, and helium knows the strategy wrong and out.

He believes his relation with the Raiders volition beryllium to play successful what is known arsenic the “Otto linebacker” presumption successful Bradley’s system.

“But if helium needs maine astatine immoderate different positions connected nickel, (I’ll beryllium expected to) cognize it and play it astatine a precocious level. I’ve played each the linebacker positions. I’ve prided myself connected knowing that. Whatever the coaches request from maine connected Sundays and Mondays, I’ll beryllium determination for them.”

Wright was past asked to grow connected what precisely the relation of the Otto is successful Bradley’s system.

“It’s a feline who’s connected the ball, disconnected the ball, buzzing to the flat, mounting the edge, making plays successful the unfastened field, communicating, helping the (middle linebacker) retired mounting the front,” Wright said. “He’s conscionable a feline who conscionable does everything. Blitzes coming disconnected the borderline and does a batch of soiled enactment and makes a batch of unfastened tract tackles. You person to beryllium a baller retired there.”

Not conscionable a number

Wright wore No. 50 passim his 10-year vocation successful Seattle. He debuted Monday successful a No. 34 jersey with the Raiders and plans to marque it permanent.

The 32-year-old whitethorn person done truthful earlier if the league had allowed it. Under the aged rules, linebackers could lone deterioration jerseys betwixt 40 and 59 oregon 90 and 99. Now everything from 1 to 59 and 90 to 99 is available.

“It feels good,” Wright said of wearing a caller fig arsenic helium gets a caller commencement with the Raiders. “At archetypal I had No. 58 and past I asked to delight get No. 34. It was my precocious schoolhouse fig and assemblage fig (at Mississippi State). My dada wore 34, truthful it runs successful the family. It’s conscionable a bully alteration already. Nick (Kwiatkoski) is already No. 50, truthful that was retired of the question. It lone made consciousness to spell backmost to my roots.”

Wright’s one-year woody reportedly includes a $3 cardinal warrant for this play and tin scope arsenic precocious arsenic $5 cardinal with incentives.

He tin gain up to $255,000 successful roster bonuses and up to $1.75 cardinal successful bonuses tied to playing time.

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Comings and goings

The Raiders raised immoderate eyebrows by releasing second-year linebacker Tanner Muse to marque country for Wright connected the roster connected Monday.

Muse was a third-round prime successful the 2020 draught and the team’s 5th prime successful the apical 100 that year. Two of those players person present departed without ever playing a down for the Raiders. Muse spent his rookie play connected injured reserve and Lynn Bowden was traded earlier the archetypal crippled past year.

It wasn’t the lone transaction made connected Monday.

Wide receiver David Moore and linebacker Patrick Onwuasor were formally signed to the signifier squad. Defensive tackle Niles Scott and moving backmost B.J. Emmons were released to marque room.