Levi Damien

1 day ago | raiderswire.usatoday.com | Levi Damien

• Raiders center Jackson Powers-Johnson has a burger named after him at a Las Vegas restaurant. • Powers-Johnson, drafted in 2024, helped create the burger's meat and cheese-heavy recipe. In the leadup to the 2024 NFL draft, Jackson Powers-Johnson talked about how he had a burger named after him while at Oregon. The Rimington Award winner was the draft's top center prospect and he hoped to get a similar burger named after him wherever he was drafted.

1 day ago | raiderswire.usatoday.com | Levi Damien

• Christian Wilkins and Adam Butler were absent from Wednesday's OTA practice due to injuries. • Wilkins is still recovering from a foot injury suffered last season, while Butler's injury is undisclosed. • Jeremy Chinn returned to practice after missing the previous week. • Chinn's versatility may be utilized at both safety and nickel corner this season. The final OTA practice open to the media is took place on Wednesday. But it did so without their top interior defensive linemen.

2 days ago | raiderswire.usatoday.com | Levi Damien

• The National Football Foundation announced the 2026 College Football Hall of Fame nominees, including several former Raiders players. • Lynch is a former Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year and Cal's all-time leader in 100-yard rushing games. • Seymour is a former First-Team All-American, a Pro Football Hall of Famer, and played four seasons with the Raiders. The National Football Foundation has announced this year's nominees for the 2026 College Football Hall of Fame.

2 days ago | raiderswire.usatoday.com | Levi Damien

Proving himself has just become a way of life for Jakobi Meyers. So much so that even after coming off his best season in which he didn’t drop a pass and went over 1000 yards for the first time, the approach that got him here remains. "Same s–t, different day,” Meyers said of coming into this season as the Raiders top receiver. “I've been doing this since I got in the league, nothing changed.

3 days ago | raiderswire.usatoday.com | Levi Damien

Not every quarterback is right for every system. And not every coach is right for every quarterback. Hence why this offseason the Raiders were able to aquire Geno Smith from the Seahawks for a late third round pick. They had offered him a contract that suggested they weren't confident he was their long term answer, so Smith wanted out. The Raiders had just hired Pete Carroll as head coach and he wanted his former starter to join him.