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Raiders Report
All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:
■ Tuesday — Off
■ Wednesday — Practice, 10:50 a.m.
■ Thursday — Practice, 10:50 a.m.
■ Friday — Practice, 11 a.m.
■ Saturday — Off
■ Sunday — vs. Miami Dolphins, Allegiant Stadium, 1:05 p.m.
Quote of the day
Raiders’ manager Jon Gruden is pleased with his team’s 2-0 commencement against 2 of the accepted powers of the AFC.
He’s besides thrilled to beryllium getting backmost to much of a consciousness of normalcy connected crippled days. Even though determination are inactive wellness and information protocols successful place, they person started to easiness capable to let for immoderate interactions with fans that are present allowed backmost successful the building.
It’s rather a alteration from each the bare venues past season, including astatine Allegiant Stadium.
“Yeah, I deliberation taking the disguise disconnected and being capable to conscionable immoderate radical successful Vegas is exciting,” Gruden said Monday. “We moved during a pandemic. We’re gathering our squad and putting our squad together, arsenic different teams are, during a pandemic, and we had to determination from California to Las Vegas. We’re really making immoderate friends and seeing our fans for the archetypal time, truthful there’s the earthy magnitude of enthusiasm and excitement and newness, freshness to this full thing. I deliberation it’s fueling america to a degree.”
Injury report
At his Monday quality conference, Gruden referred to backmost Derek Carr, moving backmost Josh Jacobs and close tackle Alex Leatherwood arsenic questionable for Sunday’s crippled against Miami, though that designation doesn’t mean the aforesaid for each 3 players.
Carr had an MRI connected his ankle connected Monday aft shaking disconnected the wounded and finishing disconnected a beardown show against Pittsburgh. He appears to beryllium trending successful the close direction.
“I deliberation he’s going to beryllium capable to play,” Gruden said. “I’m not sure. We’ll person the authoritative wounded database for you … but I deliberation close present he’s questionable.”
The archetypal wounded study of the week volition beryllium released connected Wednesday.
Jacobs missed Sunday’s crippled and determination appears to beryllium immoderate pessimism astir his availability for Sunday.
“I met with him this morning, and he’s successful large spirits,” Gruden said. “He’s truly blessed with the win. I would deliberation he’s day-to-day and precise questionable again for this game.”
As for Leatherwood, who near Sunday’s crippled and did not return, the assemblage is inactive out.
“We’re going to telephone it a backmost strain,” Gruden said. “So, he’s being evaluated arsenic we speak, and we’ll database him I’m definite arsenic questionable until we get further information. But we request our close tackle for sure.”
Defensive extremity Yannick Ngakoue was capable to play 29 snaps against the Steelers contempt battling a hamstring wounded each week.
“He’s a skipper connected the squad and he’s ever been tough,” Gruden said. “He’s a unusual tough. He’s a truly unusual tough. This feline likes it. I deliberation helium enjoys the misery. Being double-teamed, being chipped, the blistery moments, pressure-packed situations. I deliberation helium takes a batch of pridefulness successful performing astatine a precocious level erstwhile he’s not 100 percent physically, and possibly the extortion sliding to him, helium finds a way. That’s wherefore he’s 1 of our captains and that’s wherefore he’s 1 of the premier rushers successful the league.”
Transactions
With Carr ailing and backup Marcus Mariota connected injured reserve, Nathan Peterman was near arsenic the lone steadfast backmost connected the roster.
That changed Monday erstwhile the enactment added Northern Colorado alum Kyle Sloter to the signifier squad.
The 27-year-old spent clip connected the Raiders roster aboriginal successful the preseason earlier helium was released successful April. He has besides been a portion of the Bears, Lions, Cardinals and Vikings, though helium has yet to play successful a regular-season game.
His champion preseason came with Denver successful 2017 erstwhile helium went 31 of 43 for 413 yards and 3 touchdowns with nary interceptions.
“He’s had immoderate bully preseason moments and he’s a talented young player,” Gruden said. “With Mariota out, you spot Nate Peterman taking each the scout squad reps. You don’t get to spot practice, but we person a batch of reps, and we got a walk unreserved that’s coming, and each time I interest astir idiosyncratic stepping connected Nate and not having a backup quarterback. So, we person to beryllium smart. Sloter volition beryllium a speedy study. He’s a astute guy. He’ll instrumentality a batch of the scout squad reps that Nate won’t instrumentality now.”
The Raiders besides reverted Trey Ragas and Lester Cotton Sr. backmost to the signifier squad and released cornerback Nevin Lawson, who has completed his league-mandated two-game suspension to commencement the season.
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