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Raiders updated depth chart ahead of Preseason Week 3 vs 49ers

This Friday the Raiders and 49ers face off in their final preseason game of 2024. In advance of that, the Raiders released an updated depth chart.

Here it is in all its splendor.

Notes:

With the announcement of Gardner Minshew as the starting quarterback, the “or” has been removed from between he and Aidan O’Connell.

They still have two tight ends starting which means there is no starting slot receiver.

Jackson Powers-Johnson has returned from injury, but the Raiders will be going with Cody Whitehair as the starter at left guard to begin the season. At least until either Powers-Johnson is ready or if Whitehair struggles at the position.

Tyree Wilson is no closer to encroaching on Malcolm Koonce’s snaps as the starting edge than he was at the end of last season. If anything, the distance might be farther, with Jenarius Robinson making a play for snaps.

Jakorian Bennett has cemented his spot at the starting outside corner across from Jack Jones. Nate Hobbs starts at nickel corner.

Raiders first teamers can’t get anything going, fall to Cowboys 27-12

Whatever excitement that may have been created by the Raiders in their first preseason game last week was not there for an encore performance in Week two. The Raiders fielded nearly all of their healthy starters on both sides of the ball. The only …

Whatever excitement that may have been created by the Raiders in their first preseason game last week was not there for an encore performance in Week two.

The Raiders fielded nearly all of their healthy starters on both sides of the ball. The only players absent unexpetedly were wide receiver Davante Adams and tight end Brock Bowers.

Meanwhile the Cowboys fielded all reserves from the start. And yet the Raiders couldn’t find the end zone in the first half and never led in the game.

Gardner Minshew got the start this time at quarterback and played well into the second quarter before giving way to Aidan O’Connell who played well into the second half.

Over five drives with Minshew at the helm, the Raiders offense managed just one field goal. That score came on a stalled drive after a 48-yard connection with WR Tre Tucker on a deep ball. It was the second week in a row Minshew and Tucker connected on a deep ball. Last week it was a 44 yard bomb

The other drives yielded two punts and two failed fourth down conversion attempts for turnovers on downs.

A huge punt return by Tucker (there’s that man again) in the second quarter would put the Raiders in field goal range and Daniel Carlson put the Raiders up 6-3.

With Trey Lance in at QB for the Cowboys, going against mostly first team defenders for the Raiders — only the starting defensive line had been pulled — the Cowboys marched down the field for the touchdown to take a 10-6 lead. And a Brandon Aubrey 66-yard field goal in the final seconds gave the Cowboys a 13-6 lead at the half.

The third quarter was a rollercoaster for Aidan O’Connell. He drove the Raiders for their first touchdown of the game on a short pass for Harrison Bryant to bring it to a one-point game. The Raiders went for two and O’Connell threw from a backpedal to no one and the score remained a 13-12 Dallas lead.

The Cowboys didn’t respond, so the Raiders had.a chance to take the lead. Instead, O’Connell was intercepted and it was returned for a touchdown to make it a 20-12 Cowboys lead early in the fourth quarter.

That would be O’Connell’s last play in the game as he was replaced at QB by Carter Bradley.

Unlike the preseason opener, Bradley was actually allowed to put the ball in the air. And he completed his first six passes . But consecutive incompletions and the Raiders had to punt.

Once again, the Cowboys marched down the field, again led by Trey Lance, going 98 yards on 13 plays and with Lance finishing it off with keeper for the touchdown. That was the final score of 27-12.

Raiders vs Cowboys: How to watch, listen, stream Week 2 of Preseason

Raiders vs Cowboys Preseason Week 2: How to watch

This week the Raiders and Cowboys move into Week two of the preseason. For those who are interested in watching, here’s how to go about doing that:

Who: Dallas Cowboys at Las Vegas Raiders

What: Preseason Week 2

Where: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas NV

Date: Saturday, August 17

Time: 7pm Pacific (9pm CT, 10pm ET)

Watch: NFL Network, FOX 5 Las Vegas, CBS Dallas (watch free with Fubo)

Stream: Raiders.com, FuboTV (try it free)

Raiders TV broadcast team: Jason Horowitz, Matt Millen, Rich Gannon

Cowboys TV broadcast team: Bill Jones, Isaiah Stanback, Kyle Youmans

Radio: Click here for full list of stations

Radio broadcast team: JT The Brick, Lincoln Kennedy, Eric Allen

Cowboys coverage: Cowboys Wire

Coverage:

Raiders updated depth chart heading into Week 2 of preseason

Antonio Pierce talks about whether starters will play vs Cowboys

DJ Glaze to step up at RT with Thayer Munford injuring both hands

Raiders 53-man roster prediction after preseason opener

Raider bring back QB Nathan Peterman

Raiders updated depth chart heading into preseason Week 2 vs Cowboys

This Saturday the Raiders welcome the Cowboys to Allegiant Stadium for their second preseason game. This is what the depth chart figures to look like for the game.

*This depth chart is based on the unofficial depth chart the team released with new roster changes that have occurred since that depth chart was released earlier this week.

**Aidan O’Connell took the first snaps in the team’s first preseason game, so Gardner Minshew is slated to get the start this week.

Offense
QB	Gardner Minshew**	Aidan O’Connell	Nathan Peterman	Anthony Brown	Carter Bradley
RB	Zamir White	Dylan Laube	Sincere McCormick
RB2	Alexander Mattison	Ameer Abdullah	Brittain Brown
WR	Davante Adams	Krisitan Wilkerson	Jeff Foreman
WR	Jakobi Meyers	Jalen Guyton	Ramel Keyton	Tulu Griffin
SWR	Tre Tucker	DJ Turner	Alex Bachman	Tyreik McAllister
TE	Brock Bowers	Harrison Bryant	Zach Gentry
TE2	Michael Mayer	John Samuel Shenker	Cole Fotheringham
LT	Kolton Miller	Andrus Peat	Jalen McKenzie
LG	Cody Whitehair	Jackson Powers-Johnson	Corey Luciano
C	Andre James	Ben Brown	Will Putnam
RG	Dylan Parham	Jordan Meredith	Clark Barrington
RT	Thayer Munford	DJ Glaze	Dalton Wagner	Andrew Coker
Defense
DT	Christian Wilkins	Adam Butler	Matthew Butler	Noah Shannon
DT	John Jenkins	Byron Young	Nesta Jade Silvera	Marquan McCall
ED	Maxx Crosby	Jenarious Robinson	Ron Stone Jr	TJ Franklin	Elerson Smith
ED	Malcolm Koonce	Tyree Wilson	Charles Snowden	David Agoha
LB	Robert Spillane	Amari Burney	Tommy Eichenberg
LB	Divine Deablo	Luke Masterson	Kana’i Mauga	Amari Gainer
CB	Jack Jones	Decamerion Richardson	Sam Webb	Rayshad Williams
CB	Jakorian Bennett	Brandon Facyson	Cornell Armstrong	JaQuann Sheppard
SCB	Nate Hobbs	MJ Devonshire	Woo Governor
SS	Marcus Epps	Christopher Smith II	Trey Taylor	Tyreque Jones
FS	Tre’von Moehrig	Isaiah Pola-Mao	Jaydon Grant	Phalen Sanford
Spec Tms
K	Daniel Carlson
P	AJ Cole
LS	Jacob Bobenmoyer
KR	Ameer Addullah	Dylan Laube
PR	Tre Tucker	DJ Turner

Antonio Pierce responds definitively to Davante Adams preference not to play in preseason

Antonio Pierce is leaving nothing up for interpretation on whether Davante Adams will play in preseason

This week, Davante Adams returned to the team after missing the previous week of camp and the first preseason game to be at home for the birth of his son.

Upon returning, he was asked about whether he would like to play in the team’s second preseason in Las Vegas against the Dallas Cowboys. To which he responded “If I’m choosing, I’m not playing.”

The thing is, he’s not choosing. The coach decides who plays in the preseason. That coach is Antonio Pierce and in the first preseason game, all healthy players took the field, including all expected starters, regardless of veteran status.

Pierce said unequivocally, regardless of Adams’s preference, he will be taking the same approach for this week’s preseason game.

“No, if you’re healthy, you’ll play,” said Pierce.

Adams had mentioned that he hadn’t played in a preseason game since 2017. Looks like his streak of non-preseason play is going to end on Saturday night.

Raiders to hold joint training camp practices with 49ers

Raiders and 49ers to hold joint practices prior to preseason matchup

It won’t be long before Jimmy Garoppolo gets to see his old teammates again. As the Athletic is reporting the Raiders and 49ers will be holding joint practices with Garoppolo’s old club prior to a preseason meeting this year.

Holding a joint practice with their old Bay Area rivals is cool and all, but you’d think they’d have had to good sense to hold said joint practice actually *in* the Bay Area. You know, where there is still a strong contingent of Raiders fans and the weather is much cooler?

So, of course, they are holding it in Las Vegas where temp hits triple digits by 9am in August. Presumably for the same reason they invited the Patriots to town last year. That being to show off their new digs.

No date has been announced yet for these joint practices or the preseason game.

And don’t expect to see Garoppolo against his old mates in the preseason game if he’s the starter. If last year with Derek Carr was any indication, those matchups will occur in the joint practices only.

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Ballers & Busters for Raiders preseason Week 3 vs. 49ers

Sunday was the final dress rehearsal for the Raiders. And for many players, it was their last chance to make a strong impression in their push to earn a spot on the roster.

There wasn’t much in the way of great impressions in this one. The Raiders were handled from start to finish by the 49ers and lost 34-10. It must be noted that the 49ers had their actual starters in the game early on and kept potential starting QB Trey Lance in the game into the third quarter. But if the Raiders want to prove they have depth, they need to be able to hang with those guys and they simply didn’t.

That being said, there were some diamonds in the rough, so we’ll start there as per usual.

Ballers

S Karl Joseph

The former top pick by the Raiders returns after a year away in Cleveland. He is in line to be the next man up at either safety spot and could be shooting to prove to his coaches that he deserves a chance to start at some point. His performance in this game should help those efforts greatly.

On the first drive, the 49er’s first-team offense cut through the Raiders fringe roster lineup like a hot knife through butter. There were only two plays on the drive that were stopped for less than four yards and one of them was Joseph making the tackle on first and goal from the five to stop a run at two yards.

It was a similar story on the second drive, with Joseph making two more run stops including one for two yards. And again, on the 49er’s third scoring drive, they were in first and goal at the five and Joseph made a tackle for a loss on a broken play.

That drive ended in a field goal. So too did the 49er’s final drive of the first half, thanks to Joseph knocking down a pass for the end zone with a few seconds left on the clock. And just to round things off, Joseph also had a tackle on special teams too. Welcome back, Karl.

CB Damon Arnette

Remember how I said on the first two drives, there were only a couple of plays that were stopped for a short gain or no gain? Well, the other two stops were Arnette defending passes. That’s a strong day considering he only played 26 snaps, which was the first three drives and he was taken out by midway through the second quarter.

CB Amik Robertson

Twice on the 49er’s second drive, Robertson made a play that put them in third down. The first time he ran his receiver’s route for him on a deep and cut him off so it fell incomplete. The second time was a play in which Robertson chased down a run out right to stop it for two yards.

He was part of two more stops on the 49er’s final drive of the first half to help hold them to a field goal. Robertson also had an outstanding gunner tackle on a punt return to stop them at the 16-yard-line. A facemask on the 49ers would start their drive at the 8-yard-line. He led the team with two special teams tackles.

WR Dillon Stoner

The Raiders scored twice in this game. Both drives featured long catches by Stoner. He had a 27-yard catch on their field goal drive early in the second quarter and a 32-yard catch on third and 15 on their touchdown drive in the third quarter. He would lead all receivers in the game with three catches for 69 yards.

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Raiders got three defenders back on Tuesday, all will see action in preseason

Tuesday was full of good news for the Raiders in terms of players returning. Not only did Darren Waller and Marcus Mariota take the field, but they got three defenders who could all make the team and play key roles this season.

“We got a lot of guys returning,” said head coach Jon Gruden. “Karl Joseph showed up, Isaiah Johnson showed up. [Divine] Deablo got some reps today. So, we got a lot of guys that are on the fringe of coming back.”

Deablo and Johnson have spent all of camp on the PUP list. Both passed their physicals late last week and took the field for the first time today. They may not see the field in the team’s second preseason game in Los Angeles, but Gruden is targeting the final preseason game in San Francisco for them to prove themselves.

“We’re really encouraged with Divine,” Gruden said of his third-round rookie. “He had an injury that we feared was worse than it was. And I give him a lot of credit, while we were all on vacation having a good time, he was here two-a-days, rehabbing, and he’s ready to go. We are going to protect him here for the next four or five days as he gets acclimated to pads, but there is a good chance you may see him against the 49ers.

“And Isaiah, the same thing, we’re going to kind of put the boat in the water these next few days and hopefully get him on the grass against San Francisco in that last preseason game.”

Johnson has an uphill battle on his hands to find a place on the depth chart at cornerback. Even with Nevin Lawson starting the season suspended, it’s a crowded cornerback room.

Joseph has been out the past two weeks. He was brought back this offseason and is expected to provide valuable depth at safety initially, primarily strong safety. And should Johnathan Abram struggle again this season, Joseph could find himself in the starting lineup before long.

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Ballers & Busters for Raiders vs. Seahawks

Ballers & Busters for Raiders Preseason Week 1 vs. Seahawks

Our first preseason action in two years was quite an event for the Raiders as it was the first game at Allegiant Stadium with fans in attendance. They put on a good show, beating the visiting Seahawks 20-7 with a few standout performances along the way.

Ballers

WR Zay Jones

It was a bit of a coming-out party for Jones, who head coach Jon Gruden had been touting for his work ethic for the past couple of years. He got things started with a six-yard catch on the first drive. Two plays later on third and 8, he made a spectacular 28-yard catch on the left sideline. Then it was a 21-yard catch on the right sideline to set the Raiders up in first and goal from the four-yard line. Three catches on three targets for 57 yards is a solid game, let alone the first drive.

RB Trey Ragas

With Josh Jacobs and Kenyan Drake not playing in the game, Ragas put his stamp on this game right away. He picked up eight yards on his first run. Then after BJ Emmons and Nate Peterman couldn’t punch it in, Ragas finished it off with a touchdown on fourth and one.

On the next scoring drive, he had an eight-yard run on third and one to keep the drive alive and put the Raiders in field goal range. The next drive, he had two nine-yard runs and a six-yard run on third and one. He should’ve had a catch as well, but Nate Peterman missed him in the right flat and instead threw into coverage and was picked off.

He did have a couple of catches on the first drive of the third quarter to finish with 16 touches for 82 yards and a TD.

DT Darius Philon

The defense held the Seahawks scoreless in the first half and Philon was a big part of that. The big play was a hard sack from the blindside on Geno Smith. The sack was cornerback Nate Hobbs on a corner blitz, but Smith was too busy dealing with Philon bursting up the middle into his face to notice Hobbs. The result was Smith getting rocked and nearly fumbling the ball.

In the second quarter, he teamed up with Solomon Thomas on a run stuff for a loss. He helped end the next drive when he got pressure on third and eight and Clelin Ferrell cleaned it up to stop the QB for one yard on the scramble.

QB Nate Peterman

Solid game overall for Peterman. The two throws for Jones the first drive was impressive. He also had a sustained second drive that ended in a short field goal.

On his interception, he looked off Ragas open in the flat trying for more and ended up paying the price, as he got hit while he threw and was intercepted. But he recovered to lead the Raiders on another drive for a field goal to end the first half.

Peterman played all but one snap in the game, finishing 29 of 39 for 246 yards and the one interception.

WR Keelan Doss, WR DJ Turner

After the “starters” left, it was the Turner & Doss show the rest of the way. Doss had six catches on six targets while Turner had seven catches on eight targets. No one else had more than three catches in the game.

On the second and third scoring drives, it was a steady dose of Turner & Doss. That goes especially for Doss who, with 31 seconds left in the half, had a huge 17-yard catch along the left sideline to the 11-yard-line, getting out of bounds to stop the clock. He added a 13-yard catch on third-and-eight on the first drive of the second half.

RB BJ Emmons

While he wasn’t the workhorse in the game that Ragas was, Emmons had several big runs in the game. On the second drive of the game, the Raiders were in third and four from the Seattle 31-yard-line. Emmons went left, broke a tackle and broke off a 22-yard run to put the Raiders in first and goal from the nine-yard line.

The final scoring drive, with the Raiders in second and 11 from the 13-yard line, Emmons ran for 11 yards to set up first and goal from the two-yard line. On the next play, he went over the top to dive in for the touchdown. Safe to say his day ended happily.

CB Keisean Nixon

A solid overall game for Nixon. He never got burnt or committed a penalty in coverage. He also ended each of the last three Seahawks drives.

Early in the fourth quarter, on third and 14, Nixon made a fantastic open-field tackle on DeeJay Dallas to stop him at two yards. The Raiders got the ball back with great field position and drove for their final TD.

On the ensuing Seahawks possession, they went three-and-out. On third-and-nine, they tried to go for the long ball up the left sideline and Nixon stuck on his man and made a textbook pass breakup deep downfield.

The Seahawks would get the ball one more time in the game with 1:44 remaining. After driving into Raiders territory, they set up in second-and-ten from the 45, and Nixon stopped the play at six yards to end the game. Nixon finished second on the team in tackles (3). He keeps proving why the Raiders have kept the former undrafted free agent around.

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Marcus Mariota return to practice means he could make Raiders preseason debut vs Rams

On the final play of the Raiders’ practice at Allegiant Stadium on August 8, QB Marcus Mariota came up lame. He hasn’t practiced since then and didn’t appear in the team’s preseason opener against the Seahawks last Saturday. Instead, everyone got a heavy dose of Nate Peterman, who played all but one snap.

Head coach Jon Gruden said in the lead-up to the game that Mariota was “very questionable” to play. Though Mariota didn’t end up playing, he stayed suited up for the entirety of the game, suggesting that he could be an emergency option if needed. Which also suggests he was close to returning.

Tuesday, the Raiders had their first practice since Saturday’s game, which was also the first with fans at Allegiant Stadium. And taking the field was Marcus Mariota.

Their next couple practices will take place in LA with the Rams and then on Saturday they will face the Rams in their second preseason game.

Derek Carr and the starters will get a great deal of practice against the Rams starters over these next two days, so don’t expect to see much of them on Saturday.

The team would undoubtedly like to see a good amount of snaps from Mariota after seeing only Peterman last week. Carr was hoping to see Mariota play in that game.

“I hope he doesn’t play too much because then someone is going to want to try and come get him,” Carr said of the prospect of Mariota being in demand by other teams. “We enjoy having him around. Honestly, out of all the quarterbacks I’ve been around, I could hang around with him all day long. So, hopefully when he gets in there he balls out. . . Marcus has worked his tail off. I think he’s finally getting to a healthy place where he feels good. I know coming off of surgeries it’s tough.”

This would be Mariota’s Raiders preseason debut because there was no preseason last year. And even if there had been, he was injured at that time, causing him to ultimately miss the first ten weeks of the season, and appearing in just one game; the team’s week 14 game against the Chargers, coming in for the injured Derek Carr for three quarters.