Feb. 22: Released - QB Aaron Brooks
Feb. 24 : Resigned - UFA DT Terdell Sands (4 years, $17 million, $4 million signing bonus),
Resigned - UFA LB Robert Thomas (3 years, $6 million, $1.5 million signing bonus)
March 1: Not tendered - RB Adimchinobe Echemandu (RFA); RB DeJuan Green (ERFA); DT Michael Quarshie (ERFA)
March 2: Contract terminated - CB Tyrone Poole
March 3: UFA lost - OT Langston Walker (to Bills)
March 5: Roster additions - RB Adimchinobe Echemandu (not tendered as RFA by Raiders 3/1);
LB Charlton Keith (ended season on Browns practice squad).
Re-Worked - WR Ronald Curry (5 years, $20 million, $8.5 million guaranteed)
March 6:
March 7: Roster addition - UFA C Jeremy Newberry (from 49ers, 1 year).
March 9: UFAs signed: RB Dominic Rhodes (from Colts, 2 years);
UFA TE Fred Wakefield (from Cardinals);
UFA re-signed: WR Alvis Whitted.
March 12: UFAs signed: FB Justin Griffith (from Falcons, 3 years, $3.8 million);
UFA TE Tony Stewart (from Bengals).
UFA re-signed: OT Chad Slaughter.
March 13: Roster addition: S B.J. Ward (released from reserve/injured with injury settlement by Ravens 9/1).
March 19: ERFAs re-signed: TE James Adkisson; LB Isaiah Ekejiuba; DT Anttaj Hawthorne; DE Kevin Huntley.
Roster addition:RFA CB Chris Johnson (released by Chiefs 9/3).
March 21: Roster addition - UFA QB Josh Booty (released by Browns 9/17/03).
March 22: Placed on waivers: TE Derek Miller.
March 23: UFA lost: QB Marques Tuiasosopo (to Jets).
March 26: UFA re-signed: CB Duane Starks.
Roster addition: QB Jeff Otis (released by Cardinals 8/22).
March 30: UFA signed: OT Cornell Green (Buccaneers).
UFAs — S Derrick Gibson, OG Corey Hulsey, OLB Grant Irons
RFAs — RB Joseph Echema, DT Tommy Kelly, FB ReShard Lee.
Godfather, Scarface, Crosses of Iron
First Pick
At the first voluntary minicamp under new coach Lane Kiffin, Andrew Walter looked nothing like the quarterback who absorbed 46 sacks and turned the ball over 22 times in eight games as a starter for the Raiders in 2006. Rather than drop back and wait for a receiver to come free, Walter was on the move, looking for targets. Kiffin's offense is rounding into shape, but at first glance it looks a lot like the one Jon Gruden installed in 1998.
Trade 1st pick for more lower picks, 1st round offense players want too much money, hold out, sign at the end of pre-season, and expect to start in september without goin to camp, practices or team meetings.... get somebody who is hungry