For those of you who will have some trouble with the transition from the Oakland Raiders to the Las Vegas Raiders, there is good news. You can be forgiven for deciding to refer to their home as Oakland for a few more months because the team won’t be making the move until mid/late August.
“We’re going to have our offseason program here, starting around April 15, whenever the league allows us to start,” Gruden said in his season-ending press conference at the team’s headquarters Alameda. “We’ll have our offseason program here, then we’ll have our training camp in Napa and my understanding is after we break training camp, we will formally move to Las Vegas.”
Mark Davis said months ago that the team would be returning to Napa for next year’s camp and potentially after that as well. But with a new headquarters currently under construction in Henderson Nevada, just up the road from their new stadium, there were some questions as to when it would be ready for them to move in.
Waiting until after camp should allow ample time for the facility to be complete and ready before they make the move. And the actual physical move can happen more easily while the team is away in Napa for a month for training camp. Once camp breaks, instead of returning to Alameda, they head for Las Vegas to prepare for the season.
This also means the 2020 NFL Draft will be happening in the Raiders future home, and the picks will be announced as going to the Las Vegas Raiders while the team front office personnel is still in their ‘war room’ back in Alameda. And any players who they select who attend the draft, will have to hop a flight to join them for their press conference instead of just making a short trip up the street.