Oakland Raiders and the Quest for 53: The Wide Receivers

On the team, this is a key component. Useful should the running game bog down, the wide receivers help keep defenses honest and protect the offense from teams' "stacking the box". Sometimes teams design the offense to run exclusively around these players or a coach might try a more balances approach.

For the Oakland Raiders, JaMarcus Russell's maturity is going to be measured on how well these players respond and if needed, can help out the team as a whole.

With one day remaining before the first cutdown of rosters, it will be interesting to see if any of the players mentioned are done early. As of right now the Raiders.com web site is showing 10 total players fighting for a number of positions. One still listed, Samie Parker, was recen...

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