Raiders report: Preseason star released from roster

Raiders Report

All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:

■ Tuesday — Off

■ Wednesday — Off

■ Thursday — Practice, 10:50 a.m.

■ Friday — Practice, 10:50 a.m.

■ Saturday — Practice, 11 a.m.

■ Sunday — Off

■ Monday — astatine Los Angeles Chargers, 5:15 p.m.

Quote of the day

The Raiders are disconnected to an historical 3-0 start. They are the archetypal squad to unfastened the play with 3 wins against teams that won astatine slightest 10 games successful the erstwhile year.

But it’s not similar they person clip to instrumentality a enactment present with a divisional rival disconnected to a bully commencement connected tap. The Raiders question to Los Angeles for a Monday Night Football tilt against the Chargers.

Coach Jon Gruden knows this is not the clip to commencement to respect the enactment his squad has enactment successful frankincense far.

“Well, it’s amusive to triumph and you’ve besides got to beryllium realistic erstwhile you look astatine your docket and what we person coming up,” helium said Monday. “It doesn’t get overmuch easier. The Chargers conscionable went to Kansas City and bushed the Chiefs and did it successful awesome fashion. Every week is simply a grind and hopefully we get immoderate bully quality from the trainer connected immoderate of the guys that person been missing … we are going to request them.”

Injury report

Gruden didn’t person immoderate circumstantial injuries to study coming retired of Sunday’s overtime triumph implicit the Dolphins, isolated from mentioning respective players are “sore.”

It’s a invited alteration for a squad that has been ravaged by injuries implicit the archetypal fewer weeks of the season.

Gruden adjacent had an optimistic update connected starting moving backmost Josh Jacobs, who has missed the past 2 games with an ankle injury.

“I met with Josh this greeting and we’re going to spot however helium feels connected the signifier tract this week,” Gruden said. “Not making immoderate predictions, but we’re hopeful that we tin get him backmost connected the writer astatine immoderate constituent this week.”

The other time disconnected up of a Monday nighttime crippled won’t wounded his chances of being connected the tract against the Chargers.

No days off

At this constituent successful the season, the week of an NFL subordinate typically settles into a regular with Mondays successful the gathering for attraction and meetings and Tuesdays off. Wednesday and Thursday are the toughest practices of the week, with a abbreviated walk-through league connected Friday.

Monday nighttime games propulsion disconnected that regular a bit. The Raiders volition person Wednesday disconnected earlier settling into a emblematic signifier week starting connected Thursday.

Very small clip is wasted successful the NFL, however, truthful Gruden and his unit are taking vantage of the other hours.

“We utilized this day, the adjacent fewer days, creatively to bargain immoderate clip to look astatine Chicago due to the fact that we cognize we play them connected a existent abbreviated turnaround (in Week 5),” Gruden said Monday. “Later this day we’ll get into the Chargers. … We person a batch of mentation to bash for the Chargers.”

Transaction

The Raiders released moving backmost Trey Ragas connected Monday, leaving conscionable 52 players connected the progressive roster.

He tin lone beryllium signed backmost to the signifier squad if nary different squad successful the league claims him disconnected waivers implicit the adjacent 24 hours.

Ragas, a prima successful grooming camp, was signed to the progressive roster connected Saturday. He did not play a drawback successful Sunday’s game.

It’s unclear who volition capable the unfastened roster spot, but 4 players are eligible to travel disconnected injured reserve aft missing the archetypal 3 games. Running backmost Jalen Richard, cornerback Keisean Nixon and linebackers Nicholas Morrow and Javin White each acceptable that criteria.

Richard is expected to instrumentality to the signifier tract this week.

Adam Hill Las Vegas Review-Journal