The Oakland Raiders have completed an especially important set of offseason activities. With a new coaching staff and lots of new faces, there are plenty of first impressions to be made and spots to be earned.
There's still a lot of time before the season, but now is the time when players can establish, or at least begin to establish, more prominent roles on the team. A good performance during offseason activities can provide a major advantage once the preseason gets going.
Offseason activities have to be taken in the proper context. No one's wearing pads, and there are a lot of ...
The Oakland Raiders are about a month away from training camp, but that doesn’t stop the headlines, updates and buzz coming out of Alameda.
We’ll revisit Terrelle Pryor’s situation, reveal a potential concern in rookie wide receiver Amari Cooper’s game and provide some scarce updates on a few rookies on the defensive side of the ball.
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Some prefer "truth or dare" on their idle time, but for the Oakland Raiders’ offseason, we’re going with "fact or fiction" on team question marks.
A lot of talk surrounds some of the changes to first-team reps during mandatory minicamp. As a result, we’ll revisit some positional battle predictions. In addition, a familiar face has resurfaced as a possible candidate to return at a different position.
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Father's Day means a whole lot of things to a whole lot of people. To baseball's best pitcher at the moment, it arrives with past and present converging, the hard break of a biting slider with the promise of what comes next.
Because the Oakland Athletics mostly serve as little more than background noise on the national stage, you probably will meet Sonny Gray for the first time at the All-Star Game. He should start for the American League. If he doesn't, maybe the FBI wants to look into that, too.
But before we get to Cincinnati next month, there is Father's ...
It’s clear running back Roy Helu stands alone as the Oakland Raiders' most underrated playmaker after spending significant time dissecting his game tape.
Running back Latavius Murray is expected to take over the lead role in the backfield, per SFBay.ca writer Sergio Portela, but Helu has the tools to contribute in a multitude of ways as the No. 2 RB on the depth chart. Raider Nation shouldn’t count Trent Richardson out of the RB committee. However, Helu shows a tremendous amount of potential when breaking down his game in film study.
There’s a reason Helu compiled nearly identical rushing and receiving yard ...
Of all the position battles that will take place in the Oakland Raiders' training camp, the competition for the starting running back spot could prove to be the most important.
When looking at all of the additions the Raiders made this offseason, it doesn't seem that running back was too high on the list of priorities. Even with the retirement of Maurice Jones-Drew and the departure of Darren McFadden via free agency, Oakland didn't seem too concerned with this position.
Ultimately, that'll prove to be the right decision, because the team's 2015 starting running back was already on the roster.
The Raiders brought ...
The Oakland Raiders have made a lot of improvements on offense this offseason.
How will the Raiders offense perform in 2015? Who will be the MVP?
Watch as Stephen Nelson and Bleacher Report NFL Analyst Matt Bowen discuss the Raiders offense in the video above.Read more Oakland Raiders news on BleacherReport.com
The Oakland Raiders wide receiver depth combined with quarterback Derek Carr’s expected progression potentially propels the passing offense into top-10 rankings for the 2015 season.
No, it’s not false hope.
The Raiders are stocked at WR, thanks to an offseason talent overhaul at the position. General manager Reggie McKenzie provided Carr ample tools to succeed in the vertical attack.
Raiders’ Big Three
Michael Crabtree, Amari Cooper and Rod Streater—in that pecking order—serve as the best WR trio wearing silver and black in recent memory.
The most established WR, Crabtree, should have a breakout season. When healthy and engaged in the game plan, he’s the low-end ...
Oakland Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie took a lot of criticism for the new faces introduced via free agency over the past few years. In 2015, he opted to fill in various starting positions with free agents rather than rely so heavily on the draft.
Post-draft breakdowns have dissected the Raiders' rookie class from their high school years all the way through college. What about this year's class of free agents? Did McKenzie improve on the art of picking up pieces from other squads and inserting these players as missing puzzle pieces to a potential playoff team?
We'll dissect the top 10 ...
The Oakland Raiders have high expectations heading into the 2015 season.
How many games will they win? Can they become a factor in the AFC West?
Watch as Bleacher Report NFL Analyst Matt Miller discusses the Raiders in the video above.Read more Oakland Raiders news on BleacherReport.com