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Raiders, Broncos Week 1 final injury report: Brandon Facyson, Chandler Jones OUT, DeAndre Carter Questionable

Chandler Jones and Brandon Facyson officially OUT, DeAndre Carter (knee) is Questionable

The first final injury report for the Raiders 2023 season is out. And with it are Chandler Jones and Brandon Facyson. Leaving the Raiders without two potential starters on defense.

Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels announced at his press conference that he didn’t expect Jones or Facyson to play Sunday. This just makes it official.

Jones is out for personal reasons. He made a series of disturbing and concerning posts on social media this week and his status is week-to-week at this point. Rookie seventh overall pick Tyree Wilson and third year man Malcolm Koonce should get the bulk of the snaps in Jones’s absence.

Facyson missed a good portion of training camp and now his shin injury has officially moved into the regular season. Who starts at outside corner opposite Marcus Peters is not entirely known yet.

Carter was limited all week, which would suggest he could go on Sunday.

For the Broncos, it’s starting wideout Jerry Jeudy cornerback Riley Moss who are Questionable. Both were limited all week. Jeudy with a hamstring injury and Moss with an abdomen issue.

Colts vs. Bills: 5 things to know entering preseason Week 1

Here are five things to know as the Colts enter their first preseason game against the Bills.

The Indianapolis Colts travel Saturday to Orchard Park, NY, for their first action in the Shane Steichen era. The Buffalo Bills host the Colts at Highmark Stadium for a preseason Week 1 game.

With so many new faces and schemes still being installed, there is a lot to work out, but perhaps the most exciting part: Colts football is back.

Here are the five things to know for Week 1 of the preseason:

Raiders CB Brandon Facyson carted off training camp field with apparent leg injury

Brandon Facyson went down in practice with apparent leg injury and was carted off the field.

We’ve heard a lot about injuries in training camp across the league of late. Now the Raiders have suffered their first seemingly serious camp injury.

On the first day in pads, Brandon Facyson went down with an apparent leg injury and had to be carted off the field.

It’s important to note that carts taking players off the field in practice is not the same as a cart coming out for a player in a game. In games, carts are wheeled in for seemingly serious injuries in which a player is unable to leave under their own power.

In camp, the carts are on hand for several reasons including as a precaution.

Even if the injury is serious, the team will have to run tests before they can comment on the severity of it, so the results may not be immediately available.

It’s worth keeping an eye on because Facyson is competing for a starting job with this team. In fact, he took to the podium just yesterday.

5 big questions on defense as Raiders wrap up minicamp

Minicamp is a wrap. Here’s 5 big questions facing Raiders defense

Minicamp is behind us. Next stop is training camp. Many questions face this Raiders squad they must answer over the next few weeks and months. We looked at the questions facing the offense. Now we turn to the defense.

 

 

 

 

 

5 Raiders veterans who could lose their job to rookies

5 Raiders veterans who could lose their job to rookies

Few jobs are safe on a 6-11 team. It’s the Raiders coaching staff’s job to try and improve upon such a season, and much of the hopes for that rest in the new rookie class.

The team’s veterans know this. Many of them are aware they will be replaced by the new guys, or at very least they must leave it all on the field to hold them off.

By the same token, the youngsters must develop quickly to prove they can hang with the big boys.

These are the Raiders veterans who look to be in the most danger of being overtaken by a rookie this season.

Raiders not expected to receive compensatory draft picks in 2024

No comp picks for Raiders next year

For the first time in a while the Raiders had compensatory picks in this year’s draft. They had two of them, in fact — at the end of rounds five and six. But in this year’s free agency, they again are looking at a net gain in free agency, which means no compensatory picks in the 2024 draft are expected.

Here are the Raiders’ free agent losses vs gains as detailed by Overthecap.com:

Lost – 3

Jarrett Stidham
Denzel Perryman
Andrew Billings

Gains — 6

Jimmy Garoppolo
Jakobi Meyers
Marcus Epps
Robert Spillane
Brandon Facyson
Austin Hooper

The Raiders also lost Clelin Ferrell and Mack Hollins but they don’t count in the formula, and even if they did, the Raiders would still have more outgoing than incoming, so it wouldn’t really matter.

There are several factors that play into what kind of compensation a team gets from lost free agents. But the first one is simple math. If they signed more free agents than they lost, they don’t get any picks for that.

Perfect prospect fits for Colts at positions of need

These prospects are perfect fits for the Colts in the NFL draft.

The 2023 NFL Draft finally begins this week. On April 27,  the Indianapolis Colts will look to add exceptional talent and critical depth to their roster. At the top of the list of objectives is addressing positions of need.

General manager Chris Ballard has often stressed the “need to get it right” this offseason. In terms of the draft, what does that look like?

Currently holding nine selections in the draft, the Colts will have their chances to address positions of need.

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Here are the perfect prospect fits for the Colts at critical positions of need in the draft:

What keeping Kenny Moore II means for the Colts

The Colts are likely to keep CB Kenny Moore II. Here’s what that means for the team.

When the 2021 season ended, Indianapolis Colts cornerback Kenny Moore II expected changes. Moore had one of his better seasons in a Colts uniform, earning his first Pro Bowl honors.

He approached the 2022 season with an edge, hoping to be compensated for his talent as one of the NFL’s best slot corners.

Despite his best efforts to stand firm during a self-imposed “hold-in,” the Colts didn’t budge, putting pressure on Moore to strengthen his case.

Unfortunately, his 2022 season was underwhelming. Injuries and sub-par play stifled his campaign for more recognition, making him a potential cap casualty during the early portion of the offseason.

However, Moore is now expected to remain with the team for the 2023 season. What does Moore staying with the franchise mean?

Here are five thoughts about what keeping Moore means for the Colts:

Josh McDaniels sees 3 defensive starters in Raiders free agent additions

It’s hard to see how Raiders upgraded their defense in free agency but Josh McDaniels sees 3 of them as starters

Quarterback was the top priority for the Raiders this offseason. So, they cut Derek Carr and replaced him with Jimmy Garoppolo. After that, most would agree the attention should turn to the defense which was ranked in the bottom five last season.

Despite the many lists of best available free agent defenders, the Raiders went with exactly none of them, instead going with a few less heralded free agents.

The first wave featured three defenders — linebacker Robert Spillane, cornerback Brandon Facyson, and Marcus Epps.

The Raiders see all three as starters.

“We felt like with Marcus and Robert and Brandon we might have been able to get three starters at different levels of the defense there with a corner and a linebacker and a safety,” said head coach Josh McDaniels Monday at the owners meetings in Arizona.

Of those three, only Epps had more than five starts last season and it was his only season as a full time starter in his four-year career.

As for Spillane and Facyson they have never been full time starters. Spillane is expected to come in an start at middle linebacker, replacing Denzel Perryman who the Raiders allowed to leave in free agency. While Facyson returns to Las Vegas where he started nine games for the Raiders in 2021 — more than the rest of his career combined (eight).

The biggest splashes the Raiders were on offense with Garopplo and wide receiver Jakobi Meyers. The defense, the Raiders seemed to be going for quantity over quality. And most important affordability.

“We felt like we probably needed to add a quantity of players relative to either starts or depth,” said McDaniels. “And the tricky part is going in and based on the market of certain positions, it was going to be tougher to address position A and then you can’t really do much else because of the cost of it. We tried to weigh all those options out to see what made the most sense.”

Other defensive additions included DL Jordan Willis, DT John Jenkins, CB Duke Shelley, CB David Long, and S Jaquon Johnson. The five players combined for 12 starts last season with Shelley’s five starts leading the way. So, yeah, quantity is certainly one word to describe the Raiders defensive additions.

Meanwhile they let 2022 starters Perryman, CB Rock Ya-Sin, S Duron Harmon, and DT Andrew Billings leave in free agency. So, as of this moment it’s hard to see these change in starters as an improvement.

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