Oakland Raiders Rumors & News

Fox Sports South "Having already made a major impact in the free-agent market by signing running back Steven Jackson and defensive end Osi Umenyiora, the Atlanta Falcons are continuing to try to beef up their defense in the form of four-time Pro-Bowl tackle Richard Seymour. FOX Sports.com and FOX Sports..." May 24

ESPN.com "Cutting two games off the preseason -- either by expanding the playoffs or moving to an 18-game schedule -- is still being discussed, commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday at the NFL's spring owners meetings in Boston. He said all "[options] are on the table." "As I have said before, I..." May 23

Akron Beacon Journal "Jimmy Haslam, whose purchase of the Browns was unanimously approved in October, apologized to fellow NFL owners for the negative attention an ongoing federal investigation targeting his family business, Pilot Flying J, has brought upon the league, Jarrett Bell of USA Today reported. Since the..." May 23

Oakland Tribune "The excitement caused by the arrival of Charles Woodson on Tuesday wasn't limited to the outside of the building. Woodson's return to the place where he began his NFL career sent a surge of adrenaline through the inside of the facility as well, Raiders coach Dennis Allen said Wednesday. "He has..." May 22

San Francisco Chronicle "Defensive back Charles Woodson signed a one-year deal with the Raiders Tuesday night. And while the fan support surely played a factor so did $4.3 million, which is what Woodson can earn including incentives. That includes a $700,000 signing bonus for a 36-year-old player who had very little..." May 22

NFL.com "The NFL draft provides football fans with a peek into the exhilaration that comes with entering the league. Far less publicized is a player's exit from the game, which carries its own emotional weight. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said at the NFL Spring Meeting in Boston that he had met with..." May 22

Oakland Tribune "Everyone from the new regime was accounted for Monday, but much of the buzz among Raiders fans is about the potential return of an old favorite. Charles Woodson reportedly will visit the Raiders on Tuesday. Woodson said at a charity golf tournament over the weekend that ending his career where he..." May 21

Oakland Tribune "Newly signed Raiders return specialist Josh Cribbs sounded amused by speculation by an NFL general manager that his surgically repaired left knee is not ready for football. "If we were lining up to play football in June, then this would be a hot topic," Cribbs said Thursday on a conference call...." May 18

San Francisco Chronicle "Outspoken punter Chris Kluwe is coming to Oakland. That's what the punter told his fellow supporter of equal rights, former Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, in a story for Fox Sports. Kluwe will compete with second-year player Marquette King for the starting job now that Shane Lechler, the..." May 17

Cleveland Plain Dealer "Josh Cribbs has made quite an impact on not only the Cleveland Browns, but also on the NFL as one of the league's all-time best kick returners. If anyone anticipated what kind of pro player Cribbs would be, it apparently wasn't any of the NFL talent scouts in 2005 when Cribbs, Kent State's..." May 16

CBSSports.com "It sounds like punter Chris Kluwe -- cut earlier this month by the Vikings -- will continue to be outspoken about the issues in which he believes. Now, he'll have to take his megaphone to the West Coast. That's because he has signed a one-year deal with the Raiders for the league minimum, Fox..." May 16

Oakland Tribune "The agent for former Raiders cornerback Charles Woodson told ESPN on Tuesday that the Raiders have made a contract offer for the unrestricted free agent. Woodson was released by the Green Bay Packers earlier this offseason after spending the past seven seasons in Green Bay. Current Raiders..." May 15

NFL.com "Josh Cribbs remains on the free-agent market despite his best attempts to land a job. Now, we have a better idea why. New York Jets general manager John Idzik told Conor Orr of The Star-Ledger on Tuesday that Cribbs' surgically repaired left knee "isn't quite there yet." The Jets were one of..." May 15

NFL.com "Six months after nearly dying from a scary on-field collision, D.J. Hayden says he's ready to focus on football again. The Oakland Raiders rookie cornerback hasn't played since suffering a torn inferior vena cava during practice last November at the University of Houston. The injury, to the..." May 12

Newark Star-Ledger "Linebacker Aaron Curry is the newest member of the Giants. "Excited to be a Giant," he tweeted moments ago. Curry, selected No. 4 overall in 2009 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks, began his visit with the Giants on Thursday night and came back this morning for a workout. It apparently went..." May 10

Oakland Tribune "The Raiders met with veteran wide receiver Joshua Cribbs in an attempt to gauge his interest in joining the team, according to a FoxSports.com report. Cribbs, 29, spent his first eight NFL seasons with the Cleveland Browns, primarily as a kick and punt returner. He caught 107 passes during..." May 09

Yahoo! Sports "He sat at a podium and called it "the greatest trade in football," a calculated burst of hyperbole that would haunt him like a silver-and-black poltergeist. Now, 18 months after championing his team's costly, driven-by-desperation deal for Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer in the..." May 03

San Francisco Chronicle "ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper agrees with Raiders fans when it comes to undrafted free agent wide receiver Conner Vernon. Kiper: “If he led the Raiders in catches in his second year, I wouldn’t be surprised. In the mold of a Wes Welker, he’s a technician with reliable hands. Make that tremendous..." May 03

San Francisco Examiner "The Raiders re-signed free agent kicker Eddy Carmona, general manager Reggie McKenzie announced Tuesday. Carmona, a left-footed kicker out of Harding University in Arkansas, spent training camp and preseason with the Raiders in 2012 after originally signing as a non-drafted rookie free agent...." May 01

San Francisco Chronicle "The Raiders selected Florida State offensive lineman Menelik Watson with the 42nd overall pick in the second round and then got "the best linebacker in the draft" in the third round. That's according to Sio Moore, who is the linebacker in question. Moore, a 6-foot outside linebacker from..." April 28

San Francisco Chronicle "The Raiders got their man, or maybe their second-best man, in the fourth round on Saturday. League sources said Oakland general manager Reggie McKenzie was targeting USC quarterback Matt Barkley with the third pick of the fourth round (No. 100), but the Eagles traded up to No. 98 to get him. The..." April 28

Sacramento Bee "In the past, one of the best parts of the NFL draft was listening to analysts go delirious over a selection by the Raiders. A reach, a stretch or any other synonym for a bad pick was the norm when it came to the Raiders. The only other suspense was wondering when Oakland would draft the..." April 28

CBSSports.com "With the No. 12 pick in the first round, the Oakland Raiders selected cornerback D.J. Hayden out of Houston. The selection completes Hayden's remarkable recovery from a near-death experience in early-November when the former Cougars' cornerback underwent emergency heart surgery following a..." April 26

Oakland Tribune "Reggie McKenzie wants his team to look good coming off the bus, just as Al Davis did. The difference? The new Raiders will disembark with laptops and iPads, ultraserious about the business of playing football. "You show up, on time, and work as hard as you can," McKenzie said. "When it's..." April 25

Pro Football Talk "A top-ten draft trade means that the team trading up has a specific player in mind. For the team trading down, the thinking is that there are players they want that they can get later, along with the other stuff that comes from trading down. For the Raiders, who reportedly are talking about..." April 25

Oakland Tribune "Rather than being proactive with the third pick in the NFL draft Thursday, Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie is sitting back and letting the draft come to him. In a news conference Tuesday, McKenzie said he has been on the phone with potential trade suitors but that he wasn't the one..." April 24

Oakland Tribune "Reggie McKenzie wants his team to look good coming off the bus, just as Al Davis did. The difference? The new Raiders will disembark with laptops and iPads, ultra-serious about the business of playing football. "You show up, on time, and work as hard as you can," McKenzie said. "When it's time..." April 24

CBSSports.com "Because they do the on-location television coverage for the draft, the analysts who work for ESPN and NFL Network will know in advance who's being taken in the 2013 NFL Draft. But this year, those folks aren't going to spoil the picks on Twitter. Instead, they will "speculate" on who might be..." April 22

NFL.com "Lesson learned -- Darren McFadden and a zone-blocking scheme do not mix. The Oakland Raiders running back averaged just 58.9 yards per game in 2012, his lowest mark since 2009. His 3.3 yards per carry was a career low. "I came in last year with my hopes super high," McFadden said Thursday, via..." April 20

CSN Bay Area "Rolando McClain is gone. Long gone. The purported cornerstone of the Raiders defense at middle linebacker was finally -- thankfully, according to many fans -- kicked to the curb when he was waived on April 5. Oakland had already signed unrestricted free agent Nick Roach, late of the Chicago Bears,..." April 17

Yahoo! Sports "On the heels of regulators red-flagging a potential $18 million scam last week, multiple federal agencies are probing investments sold to NFL and NBA players, Yahoo! Sports has learned. According to multiple sources that spoke to Yahoo! Sports on the condition of anonymity, several professional..." April 17

San Francisco Chronicle "I wonder if Reggie McKenzie gave a bunch of free agents a take it or leave it date, as the Raiders general manager just signed his fourth player on Tuesday. After signing free agent cornerback Mike Jenkins and re-signing defensive end Andre Carter to one-year contracts earlier in the day,..." April 16

NFL.com "Pat Summerall spent 10 years in the NFL as a player. He spent another 40 years describing the game he loved as one of the sport's iconic broadcasters. On Tuesday, Summerall passed away at the age of 82, Fox Sports spokesman Dan Bell confirmed to NFL.com and NFL Network. According to..." April 16

NFL.com "Fear not, friends, the NFL schedule will become public knowledge this week. League spokesman Greg Aiello announced Tuesday that the NFL's 2013 regular-season slate of games will be announced on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. This comes one day after the league told NFL.com's Around The League that..." April 16

Yahoo! Sports "There's a curious and somewhat disgusting case of whodunit being investigated by approximately a dozen NFL teams. National Football Scouting president Jeff Foster, who runs the NFL scouting combine, confirmed that a hotel room was left trashed during the February 2013 event in Indianapolis...." April 16

CSN Bay Area "Newly-acquired Oakland Raiders running back Rashad Jennings describes himself as a "complete back." "A back that can protect the quarterback, pick up the offense," Jennings said on a conference call with Bay Area writers Thursday afternoon. "A running back that can catch out of the backfield, a..." April 13

Contra Costa Times "Prosecutors have decided not to file any charges against Raiders wide receiver Jacoby Ford after he was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated last month, officials said Wednesday. Ford, 25, was arrested March 14 at 5th and Union streets in Oakland after California Highway Patrol..." April 12

San Francisco Chronicle "Not yet anyway. Reports of quarterback Seneca Wallace agreeing to terms on Wednesday were way premature, a league source said. The 32-year-old former Browns and Seahawks backup did work out for the team, and it’s possible that the Raiders may sign him down the road, but not right now. Oakland..." April 12

NFL.com "NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported earlier in the offseason that the Oakland Raiders had "preliminary" conversations about bringing in free-agent quarterback Vince Young in for a workout. On the heels of an impressive showing at the University of Texas pro day late last month, the Raiders followed..." April 11

Baltimore Sun "The Ravens have reached an agreement in principle on a one-year contract with former Oakland Raiders middle linebacker Rolando McClain, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. The deal doesn't carry a big financial commitment from the Ravens, but is expected to include incentive..." April 11