The playoffs begin today. The Raiders are obviously not one of the teams that will be playing. But there will be a lot of players who once donned Silver & Black who will be playing for something — 21 by my count.

The team with the most former Raiders is the Texans with five. They will face the Bills who have four former Raiders players. The two teams will kick-off at 1:35 pm Pacific (4:35 pm ET) as the first match-up of this year’s playoffs.

Parenthesis denotes original Raiders draft round and year.

Texans

LB Tyrell Adams

CB Gareon Conley (D1-17)

RB Taiwan Jones (D4-11)

QB AJ McCarron

DT Eddie Vanderdoes (D3-17)

Bills

LB Lorenzo Alexander

C Jon Feliciano (D4-15)

DT Corey Liuget

TE Lee Smith

The second game on Saturday will kick off a 5:15 pm PT (8:15 ET). It be the Titans vs the Patriots (don’t you just love seeing the Patriots having to play in the wild card round?). Each team has two former Raiders on its roster.

Titans

LB Daren Bates

WR Rashard Davis

Patriots

DE Shilique Calhoun (D3-16)

OT Marshall Newhouse

Sunday will start off with the Vikings vs the Saints at 1:05 pm Pacific (4:05 pm ET). The Vikings are the only team with no former Raiders on its roster while the Saints have four former Raiders.

Vikings

None

Saints

TE Jared Cook

DE Mario Edwards Jr (D2-15)

RB Latavius Murray (D6-13)

S DJ Swearinger

And the final game of the opening weekend will be the Seahawks vs the Eagles at 1:40 pm PT (4:40 ET), each with two former Raiders players on them, including Beast Mode who signed back with the Seahawks just last week.

Seahawks

RB Marshawn Lynch

TE Luke Willson

Eagles

QB Josh McCown

DT Anthony Rush (UDFA-19)

Teams with first-round byes are the Ravens, Chiefs in the AFC and the 49ers, and Packers in the NFC.

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