Raiders report: ‘Worldly’ offensive lineman ready for spotlight

Raiders Report

All practices astatine Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, unless noted:

■ Saturday — Travel

■ Sunday — astatine Pittsburgh Steelers, 10 a.m.

■ Monday — Off

■ 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

Guard Jermaine Eluemunor made instant fans with his archetypal podium quality astatine the squad installation Thursday erstwhile helium was comic and engaging successful telling his communicative of moving to the United States successful hopes of learning to play football.

Coach Jon Gruden wasn’t amazed by the reaction.

“He’s going to get rather a instrumentality base,” helium said of the England autochthonal who is expected to commencement Sunday. “ He’s a truly absorbing person. We person a close tackle (Alex Leatherwood) that I deliberation the antheral helium wanted to person meal with if helium could conscionable anybody was Socrates. So, Leatherwood is simply a deep, philosophical cat. And present we got this Eluemunor who comes from overseas and he’s played shot and he’s worldly. And he’s precise intelligent, and I’m not. So, it’s truly chill to beryllium astir these 2 guys. How rapidly they person learned our strategy and however they bask competing and playing football.”

Injury report

Josh Jacobs’ lack for Sunday’s crippled with ankle and toed injuries captured the headlines, but lone scratches the aboveground of the database of walking wounded for the Raiders.

A full of 18 players appeared connected Friday’s last wounded report, including 8 with crippled designations.

Guard Richie Incognito (calf), linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski (concussion), information Roderic Teamer (ankle) and backmost Marcus Mariota (quad) volition each miss the game.

Defensive tackle Darius Philon suffered a genu wounded successful signifier connected Thursday and is questionable. Defensive extremity Carl Nassib got successful constricted signifier sessions Thursday and Friday with pectoral and toed injuries and besides is questionable.

Defensive extremity Yannick Ngakoue is questionable, but intends to play done a hamstring injury, according to Gruden.

“He’s 1 of our toughest players,” Gruden said of Ngakoue, who has practiced successful a constricted capableness each week with a heavily-taped close limb and what appears to beryllium immoderate benignant of brace. “ He’s a squad captain, astir unanimously selected. That says a lot, but helium wants to win. He knows we got to person him to win. And I respect these players that spell to utmost measures to bash what they person to bash to get acceptable to play mentally and physically, and he’s astatine the apical of the illustration erstwhile it comes to that.”

Unwritten

Gruden was asked Friday wherefore helium believes Pittsburgh backmost Ben Roethlisberger continues to win astatine the highest levels and triumph games contempt being written disconnected by galore analysts connected respective occasions implicit the past fewer years, peculiarly aft a large elbow country 2 years ago.

He didn’t peculiarly attraction for the premise.

“Who wrote him off?” Gruden snapped. “I mean constitute those names down. I’d similar to cognize who wrote him off. I mean really, who wrote him off? Why would you constitute him off? I don’t cognize wherefore you’d constitute him off. He’s inactive a helluva player, large rival and helium loves the large moments. I’m not going to beryllium present and reason with you implicit it, but there’s a batch of radical making statements that are conscionable ridiculous.”

Roethlisberger accepted a wage chopped successful bid to stay arsenic the Steelers backmost successful 2021.

Ignore the noise

The Raiders expect to look 1 of the astir raucous, hostile roadworthy environments they person endured successful immoderate clip erstwhile the crippled kicks disconnected Sunday aft playing successful beforehand of reduced capableness and adjacent bare stadiums past year.

Gruden hopes his squad is prepared aft struggling with immoderate issues astatine the enactment of scrimmage successful the affable confines of Allegiant Stadium past week.

“We cognize it’s going to beryllium loud,” helium said. “Hopefully we’re acceptable for it. We practiced successful the sound each week and I cognize this” We’ve got to destruct the mendacious starts and pre drawback penalties. I don’t attraction if we play astatine location oregon away, that was ridiculous past week. We’ve got to play better.”

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