Suddenly, the Raiders are hit. Particularly in the linebacker position. They brought down Nicholas Morrow in practice this week, Nick Kwiatkoski was already offside and in that game Javin White fell with a knee injury and was taken off the field.
After the game, Jon Gruden gave several injury updates, especially to his defense.
“There’s obviously a concern with Nick Morrow. His foot is being evaluated,” Gruden said. “And Javin White looks like his knee hurt. So we were a couple of defenders. [Darron] Lee has not been able to play tonight, so we are now light on defense. It is a concern. [Nick Kwiatkoski] it will go well, we think it will be ready to go there this week, but tonight I could not go there “.
White’s injury during tonight’s game looks like it could be especially serious.
“I don’t want to come to any conclusions, but we will evaluate it and it will have to receive X-rays, but we are concerned,” Gruden de White added.
Others who could have played tonight, but who resisted for health reasons, are Damon Arnette, Karl Joseph and Marcus Mariota. Gruden didn’t give any details about Arnette, but I asked her why she fit Mariota, but she didn’t go.
“He’s just not ready to go, physically,” Gruden said of Mariota. He competed against the Rams (in mixtures), but he is limited, right now we do not invite him to play with the limitation. It has a variety of quad. We think he has a chance to play against the 49ers, but as he plays, we don’t want to take him out in a live situation and let him go, he’s just not ready. He was ready tonight in case of an emergency, but right now he is not ready to go. “
And finally, there’s Richie Incognito’s condition that fell into practice Thursday almost simultaneously to when Morrow fell into the opposite field.
“We think he has a beef stump and we hope he’s ready for the opening,” Gruden said of Incognito. “But we don’t think it’s serious, not even related to the Achilles tendon. But it is a calf injury and we will keep you up to date, but right now he will be out for at least a week or so ”.
If the incognito wasn’t ready for the season opener, John Simpson would replace him as the left guard.