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No preseason games won’t have a major impact on Las Vegas Raiders

By Khaled Abdallah

HENDERSON, NEVADA - JUNE 10: Construction continues at the 336,000-square-foot Las Vegas Raiders Headquarters/Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center on June 10, 2020 in Henderson, Nevada. The site will serve as the team's practice facility and will include three outdoor football fields, a 150,000-square-foot field house with one-and-a-half indoor football fields, a three-story office area, and a 50,000-square-foot performance center. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
HENDERSON, NEVADA - JUNE 10: Construction continues at the 336,000-square-foot Las Vegas Raiders Headquarters/Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center on June 10, 2020 in Henderson, Nevada. The site will serve as the team's practice facility and will include three outdoor football fields, a 150,000-square-foot field house with one-and-a-half indoor football fields, a three-story office area, and a 50,000-square-foot performance center. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /
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Raiders QB Derek Carr (Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images)
Raiders QB Derek Carr (Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images) /

No preseason games won’t have a major impact on Las Vegas Raiders

Offense minimally impacted

Based on a base offensive set of 11 personnel, the Raiders will be returning 10 of the 11 starters from 2019. All five starters from the offensive line are back, and all of the skill position starters are back, except for the outside receiver opposite Tyrell Williams.

Henry Ruggs III is the new starter replacing the motley crew the Raiders had out there in 2019 and he will still have training camp to learn the offense, even if it’s not the same as live game action. If Ruggs is a little behind in grasping the offense, based on who makes the roster, the Raiders can give more snaps to veteran guys like Nelson Agholor and Zay Jones.

There are some other new faces on the offense, such as the aforementioned Agholor and Jason Witten, but they are both veteran players who may just need time to build chemistry with Derek Carr. Witten has played with a number of quarterbacks over his lengthy career, and is a consummate professional so there should be little concern about his transition.

This will be year three of the second Jon Gruden era so by now Carr and center Rodney Hudson should have an encyclopedic understanding of his offense, and that continuity will be a benefit for the unit. Several teams across the NFL have different quarterbacks or offensive schemes than in 2019, and they have not had the benefit of OTAs or mini-camps to get up to speed.

Thankfully that is not one of the challenges the Raiders offense is facing in 2020.

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