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Raiders, Broncos final injury report: DT Johnathan Hankins Doubtful with hip injury

Raiders DT Johnathan Hankins is Doubtful with hip injury vs Broncos

It’s still not looking good for the Raiders at the defensive tackle spot this week. Johnathan Hankins missed the entire week of practices with a hip injury and is officially Doubtful for the game against the Broncos. While fellow starting DT Quinton Jefferson is Questionable with a back injury that had him miss one practice and Limited in two other practices this week.

With Hankins likely not playing, Darius Philon would figure to step into a starting role. Should Jefferson not be able to play, Solomon Thomas would step up. But that would also leave the Raiders quite thin at the DT spot and their best attribute right now is the ability to rotate in players to keep them fresh.

Everyone else was removed from the Raiders injury report, including Josh Jacobs who had missed Thursday’s practice with an illness and was limited on Friday.

For the Broncos, CB Mike Ford was rule OUT after missing all week with a knee injury. While RB Melvin Gordon (hip) and S Kareem Jackson (back) are both Questionable.

Raiders, Broncos Thursday injury report: Raiders missing both starting defensive tackles

Raiders, Broncos Thursday injury report: Raiders missing both starting defensive tackles

Thursday brought some uneasy news for the Raiders from an injury standpoint. They were already without starting nose tackle Johnathan Hankins with a hip injury. Then come Thursday, fellow starting defensive tackle Quinton Jefferson also missed practice with a back issue.

The Raiders have struggled to stop the run at times this season and Hankins and Jefferson are their top run stopping interior linemen, so their loss could prove significant should they not be able to play.

Otherwise, the injury report was promising for the Raiders. Though it was even more promising for the Broncos who saw RB Melvin Gordon and S Kareem Jackson both return to practice after missing practice on Wednesday. Leaving just CB Mike Ford as the only player who missed practice Thursday.

Worth noting for Raiders was that S Johnathan Abram was downgraded to limited participant in practice with shoulder and calf injuries and RB Josh Jacobs missed practice with an illness.

Raiders, Broncos Wednesday injury report: Johnathan Hankins misses practice with hip injury

Raiders, Broncos Wednesday injury report: Johnathan Hankins misses practice with hip injury

More than once during Sunday’s game between the Raiders and Bears, Johnathan Hankins stayed down on the field following a play and eventually walked off slowly. He would play 43 snaps in the game (67%) total, leaving his health for next Sunday’s game in Denver in question.

Wednesday, Hankins was the only injury related absence for the Raiders.

Hankins is a crucial part of the Raiders’ run defense. He’s been an every games starter now in his fourth season, not missing a game since he was signed after week one of the 2018 season.

Tight end Darren Waller and DE Yannick Ngakoue both had rest days while Carl Nassib took a personal day.

Limited for the Raiders was CB Brandon Facyson (hip), DT Quinton Jefferson (back), S Dallin Leavitt (knee), LB Cory Littleton (shoulder), and S Roderic Teamer (ankle).

The Broncos had several players miss practice with injuries including RB Melvin Gordon (hip), S Kareem Jackson (back), and CB Mike Ford (knee).

Ranking the top 25 players on Raiders roster: 11-15

Ranking the top 25 players on Raiders roster: 11-15

After revealing players 25-16 over the last two days, we head into the top 15 players on the Raiders roster:

15. LB Cory Littleton

Some people may be surprised to see Littleton ranked this high after the season he had in 2020. I don’t think it’s fair to write him off after one season. Consider the situation he found himself in. He joined a new team, with a complicated defense, in a year that had no offseason.

As a free agent, he was considered the best all-around linebacker on the market. I am not ready to let one down season erase that. I see a bounce-back year for Littleton with a full offseason in a more simplified system under new DC Gus Bradley.

14. OG Richie Incognito

At times Incognito looks just as dominant as he ever did. But he’s missed 18 games the past two seasons and is about to turn 38 in July. I don’t expect he will be at the level he was known for in 2017 and before when he was a durable Pro Bowl player, but he will be far from a liability on the line either.

13. WR Hunter Renfrow

Third-and-Renfrow is absolutely a thing. Defenses know Derek Carr will be looking for his reliable slot target on third down and yet Renfrow still manages to get open and move the chains.

He upped his game last season from his outstanding rookie season, catching seven more passes (56) for 51 more yards (656). He also did a solid bit of punt returning, averaging 11.5 yards per return on 23 returns.

12. DT Johnathan Hankins

Probably the most under-appreciated player on the Raiders’ defense. He’s started every game the past two seasons and appeared in every game since being signed early in the 2018 season. He clogs the middle and puts up tackle numbers you don’t normally see from a nose tackle, averaging 49 combined tackles the past two seasons.

11. G Denzelle Good

Good was seen as a quality reserve guard when the Raiders claimed him off waivers from the Colts in 2018. Last season he proved he was a whole lot more. A career guard, he stepped in at right tackle for a couple of games early in the season and then moved back to guard to replace the injured Incognito for the rest of the season. He made himself a must re-sign and a starter after the team traded away Gabe Jackson this offseason.

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2021 free agency: 10 under-the-radar targets for the Bills

Under-the-radar free agents for the Buffalo Bills at the start of 2021 NFL free agency.

On Monday. the NFL’s tampering period for free agency begins. During this time, clubs can talk to pending free agents from other teams ahead of Wednesday, when free agents are officially allowed to sign contracts.

However, the Bills have recently been very active in regards to free agency already. Buffalo made a couple of roster cuts and restructured the contracts of a few other players. That led to linebacker Matt Milano and offensive linemen Daryl Williams and Jon Feliciano re-signing with the club.

Because of those important moves and a dip in the salary cap to $182.5 million this year, Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane won’t have the big dollars to shell out to free agents. But there’s still dough to go around.

With that, here are 10 under-the-radar free agents the Bills could sign when the free agent market opens this week:

Remembering the Giants’ biggest training camp fights from recent years

As the New York Giants ready themselves for the first padded practice of the year, here’s a look back at some of their biggest camp fights.

The New York Giants will put on the pads for the first time on Monday, which means tempers are likely to flare and fists may begin to fly.

That may sound dramatic, but it’s just the nature of NFL training camps. And when considering the Giants will also hold intrasquad scrimmages once per week, it seems almost inevitable that a few punches will be thrown.

With that in mind, here’s a look back at some of the biggest and most memorable Giants training camp fights from recent years.

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2019: Lorenzo Carter vs. Nick Gates

The Giants didn’t do much fighting in 2019, but there were a few dust-ups.

One such incident came last August when linebacker Lorenzo Carter and offensive lineman Nick Gates got into a bit of a scrap.

While neither player swung at the other, there were a few shoves before teammates swarmed and pulled the two apart.

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