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Raiders announce QB news ahead of Black Friday game vs. Chiefs | Yardbarker
Aidan O’Connell will indeed be in place for the Raiders for their Black Friday contest. The second-year quarterback was activated from injured reserve on Thursday, per a team announcement.
O’Connell was designated for return earlier this week with the expectation he would be activated in time to start against the Chiefs on Friday. The QB1 gig will be his the rest of the way this year given Gardner Minshew‘s broken collarbone. Minshew was officially moved to IR in a corresponding move.
The Raiders have been linked to a quarterback pursuit this offseason given their struggles on offense, but both Minshew and O’Connell are under contract for 2025. The latter has made 12 total starts in the NFL, but after showing a degree of promise late last season, the current campaign has not gone according to plan. O’Connell, 26, will be joined on the depth chart by Desmond Ridder over the coming weeks but it would come as no surprise if one or more new signal-callers were to be added this offseason.
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Q: Noah Gray was an under-the-radar player at the beginning of the season but has already set career highs in receiving yards and touchdowns and is coming off a two-touchdown performance last week. What can you tell us about Kansas City’s second tight end?
A: I have always thought Gray is a good player, and Chiefs’ general manager Brett Veach looks like a genius for an under-the-radar extension for him as the season started. For the last couple of years, Gray has been the perfect complement to Travis Kelce. While he will never match the Hall of Famer’s performance, there is a minimal gap in November of 2024 between what the 25-year-old Gray and the 34-year-old Kelce can do on the field.
I knew when Rashee Rice went out for the season that TE2 was going to be a more important position for the Chiefs going forward. Right now Gray has that great combination of being well-practiced with Mahomes while not drawing attention from defenders due to the bigger names among Kansas City pass catchers. It will be interesting to see if Gray becomes a bigger priority for linebackers and safeties over the next few weeks.
Patrick Mahomes’ killer instinct remains intact. Everyone around him is seemingly either aging, hurt or spare parts, but the quarterback’s ridiculously efficient late-game scrambling has kept them a winner.
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