The Raiders have a significant injury concern with one of their top offensive players.
According to multiple reporters on the scene, running back Ashton Jeanty exited Sunday’s practice early with an apparent right leg injury.
Jeanty went down after diving to catch a pass from Kirk Cousins, going down awkwardly. Jeanty was not able to put weight on his right leg as he was helped off the field with trainers and did not return.
As a team, the Raiders took a knee for a moment in silence after Jeanty went down.
The No. 6 overall pick of the 2025 draft, Jeanty is slated to be a focal point of Las Vegas’ offense in 2026 under new head coach Klint Kubiak. In 17 games as a rookie last year, Jeanty finished with 1,321 yards from scrimmage — 975 rushing, 346 receiving on 55 catches — with 10 total touchdowns.
The Raiders placed cornerback Chigozie Anusiem on season-ending injured reserve Saturday, the team announced.
Anusiem injured his knee in the third quarter of Thursday night’s preseason game against the Texans. He was on the punt team when he was dragged down from behind.
He played 54 special teams snaps in three games last season for the Raiders, who signed him to the active roster in Week 15.
Anusiem has also had stints with the Browns and Cardinals.
He has appeared in four career games, primarily on special teams.
Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels worked in New England for each of the six Super Bowls that Tom Brady won there. As McDaniels tried to win a seventh against the Seahawks in February, Brady declared that he didn’t have a “dog in the fight.”
Since then, speculation has emerged that Brady, a Raiders owner, helped Seattle in its effort to beat New England. Patriots coach Mike Vrabel recently shrugged at that possibility, given that Brady was preparing to hire Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak.
McDaniels had a chance to chime in on Friday, during an appearance on WEEI in Boston.
Asked if he thinks Brady helped the Seahawks, McDaniels said, “I have no idea.”
McDaniels then was asked whether it would bother him, if that had happened. Said McDaniels, “I wouldn’t have a dog in that fight.”
It’s the ideal response, turning Brady’s clunky throwaway line back at him.
Regardless of how current and former Patriots players and coaches may feel about Brady’s neutrality, Patriots fans were and still are pissed off about it. With one comment, he went from being one of them to being an outsider — even though his statue is now parked outside Gillette Stadium.
It makes his anticipated return to Foxborough to call the Week 9 game between the Packers and the Patriots even more intriguing. How will he be received that day? Even if most fans cheer his return, it likely won’t be universal among fans who feel betrayed by Brady’s decision to not publicly support the Patriots — and the possibility that he privately helped the Seahawks win the game.
The fact that the issue came up during two separate Friday interviews on WEEI (one with McDaniels and one with linebacker Robert Spillane) shows that the locals haven’t forgotten. Which surely means that many of them haven’t forgiven.
The Raiders have to get better at wide receiver in a hurry.
That’s the word from head coach Klint Kubiak, who said in reviewing Thursday’s preseason game that the wide receiver group needs improvement between now and Week One. Asked what he learned about his wide receivers at the joint practice and preseason game with the Texans, Kubiak sounded decidedly negative.
“I learned a lot, that we have to get a lot better very fast,” Kubiak said. “We took a step backwards. That doesn’t mean we can’t go forward, but right now we are trying to find someone that is accountable and can help us on Sunday. Still looking.”
The Raiders’ current starting receivers are Tre Tucker, Jack Bech and Jalen Nailor. It’s unclear whether Kubiak expects to bring in wide receivers from the outside or whether he wants the current group to get better, but there’s not a lot of time for them to get better between now and the Raiders’ Week One game against the Dolphins.
When Patriots legend Tom Brady, whose statue sits outside the team’s stadium, said before the Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl “I don’t have a dog in the fight,” New England linebacker Robert Spillane said of the remark, "[P]ersonally it makes me sick.”
Appearing earlier today on WEEI in Boston, Spillane was asked if it irritated other players in the locker room, too.
“It irritated me, and it made me feel sad for him, spending 20 years here, obviously, went on to do amazing, great things, not only on the football field but in the community, and to say that he had no care in the world, it irritated me,” Spillane said. “It made me feel sad for him. But at the end of the day, that was just my personal opinion. Everyone else has their own opinions in the locker room.”
Patriots coach Mike Vrabel recently addressed Brady’s remark, taking a more pragmatic approach: Brady has moved on, he’s with the Raiders now.
And if Brady did indeed collaborate with the Seahawks before the game, Vrabel understood that, too. Brady’s team was about to hire Seattle offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak as its head coach. It was better for the Raiders if Kubiak arrived with a brand-new Super Bowl ring.
Especially since it’s been 43 years since the last time the Raiders won one of their own.
