The Las Vegas Raiders offense returns principally intact, although it’ll look a lot completely different within the backfield as they misplaced Josh Jacobs to the Inexperienced Bay Packers in free company.
Jacobs signed a four-year, $48 million cope with Inexperienced Bay, although the latter has crew choices for the ultimate two seasons, successfully making it a two-year deal. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless fairly the haul for Jacobs who performed on a one-year deal value roughly the identical quantity final season.
The star working again had a comparatively down 12 months in 2023 after main the NFL in dashing yards the 12 months prior. His contract negotiations with the Raiders have been extremely documented as the 2 sides couldn’t conform to a long-term extension.
In an look on Inexperienced Gentle with Chris Lengthy, Jacobs revealed that it bought irritating working as arduous as he did for no outcomes and never getting compensated for his efforts as transcribed by raidersbeat.com:
“Essentially the most irritating factor about all of it I really feel like, particularly if you bought like me, Tae, and Maxx… you bought guys that are available in each day and work arduous, and also you don’t get the outcomes. After which it will get to the purpose the place like, ‘Okay, I’m working arduous, and I’m doing each little element, each little step, and I’m nonetheless not getting the outcomes.
“So I didn’t have the solutions. And that’s the half that was probably the most irritating. It’s like, okay, you do every part that you simply’re requested of, however you continue to don’t get the outcome that you really want or this or that. And it’s such as you’ll be shut, however yearly you’re shut, nevertheless it’s not successful. In order that was an enormous factor for me, too. I’m like, ‘Man, you all need me to return again on a reduction and lose? I don’t know the way I really feel about that.’”
It’s fairly a candid remark from Jacobs, who clearly grew uninterested in taking part in for Las Vegas after all of the contract drama. It was no secret that the Raiders would’ve most well-liked to have him again on a less expensive deal, nevertheless it was good for Jacobs that he sought a longer-term deal elsewhere.
Zamir White says Raiders have been actually on in OTAs
With Jacobs out of the image, second-year working again Zamir White is predicted to be the crew’s new beginning working again. Throughout OTAs, the Raiders appeared upbeat and constructive, and White famous how the group as a complete was on it.
