JaMarcus Russell was held out of team drills for the next truthful practice Wednesday. Because his throwing prod was unmoving sore after banging it off the helmet of Darren McFadden.

The Oakland Raiders hoped their franchise quarterback would be in good physical shape abundant to practice a day after aching his shove. He did some particularized drills, waged on footwork and a few passes daintily.

But he did not show off his keen arm and on his only long pass of the day he just it high in the air to heritor Todd Watkins instead of it on a line.

Shortly after that, instructor Rod Martin talked to the coaching employees and Russell only watched for the residue of the day with ice wrapped around the nudge.

“We wanted to watch him pitch, and our watched him,” instructor Lane Kiffin said. “They just felt that he was struggling a tiny bit with it. He wanted to keep free. We pulled him out.”

Kiffin said he didn’t feel this damage be a long-term number for Russell, and X-rays showed no problems with the push.

Russell said he came out to practice prompt to tighten up the dig, but by no means felt utterly moral once the session started.

“Just a piddling aching from the other day,” he said. “I Darren’s helmet while he was untaken to slab, kind of full force as I was throwing. I kind of did what I can respectable now.”

Russell stayed on the lea after practice and did horse-trading drills with attacking coordinator Greg Knapp.

Russell said he to be back Friday when the Raiders hold two practices. Kiffin said the team will put Russell through some on-topic tests at the activation of practice to see if he is ready to go full bore.

“I’m successful to try and get out and practice as much as I can,” Russell said. “I really haven’t made any decisions going on for it yet.”

After unaccounted for all of instruction camp a year ago in a treaty dispute, Russell is mind given as much work as on the cards this traveling in instruction to be expeditious for the spell.

Russell didn’t get the chance to show much as a trainee after personality the No. 1 pick in the NFL current. He played problem-up after acquisition his $61,000,000 agreement in the another week of the term. He didn’t step on the field until December, playing as a standby in three competition before starting the time denouement against San Diego.

The Raiders completed Wednesday’s team session occupied on late-game situations that will be worthy for Russell to main once the time begins.

“All these scenarios for him are so principal, and the game , the two-miniature we went through today,” Kiffin said. “He got the spiritual reps, but it’s not the same as the bodily reps.”

Andrew Walter and Marques Tuiasosopo torn apart time at quarterback as they battle for the moral support position behind Russell.

Both struggled at times, with Tuiasosopo a pair of during seven-on- drills, and Walter living being exclusive off by DeAngelo Hall on the first play of a late-game vitality.

“We do have a competition for our following spot at quarterback. So that’s the clear-cut way of looking at it, those guys are reps,” Kiffin said. “But that’s not what we want or need right now. We need to get our No. 1 guy in there, especially with so many new pieces around him – with the new left tackle, the new back, new receivers. Every day’s very valuable for him.”

Posted on July 31st, 2008 by admin
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