No wrong answers We discuss all kinds of things in our weekly Tuesday Community question. I enjoy them all, but, as you now, I’m a sucker for Raiders’ history, so when we delve into the history of the Las Vegas Raiders throughout the years, I really get excited.
The greater Los Angeles area has produced some of the greatest football players of all time. Here are our top choices, listed in alphabetical order. Let the fun begin.
The Las Vegas-Oakland-Los Vegas Raiders have had so many great cornerbacks, including Hall of Famers Willie Brown and Mike Haynes, that it’s easy to overlook a player like Lionel Washington, who played nine seasons on the corner the Silver and Black.
Cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha is another highly underrated great who played most of his career with the Oakland Raiders. The Raiders drafted the 6-2 210-pound Asomugha in the first round of the 2003 National Football League draft after playing safety nearby at the University of California in Berkeley.
Samuel and McCoy didn't mince words about Asomugha, who struggled mightily after signing a big deal with Philadelphia in 2011
The acquisition of Darius Slay three years was widely praised because of his considerable abilities at cornerback. It presented Eagles fans with the first genuine opportunity to move on from the Nnamdi Asomugha disaster.
Ever since the financially motivated departure of Nnamdi Asomugha, the Las Vegas Raiders franchise has been in need of a true number one cornerback to neutralize top receivers on a weekly basis.
A look back at some swing and misses As we prepare for this week’s NFL Draft, all of our communities are looking back at some of our biggest draft-take blunders.
The Oakland-Los Angeles Raiders had an incredible series of cornerbacks, starting with Willie Brown and including Kent McCloughan, Fred Williamson, Skip Thomas, Lester Hayes, Mike Haynes, Charles Woodson, Eric Allen, Nnamdi Asomugha, Philip Buchanon, and more.
The Raiders cornerbacks have struggled since the days of Nnamdi Asomugha and the great Charles Woodson. Can the new age cornerbacks finally break the curse?
1. Willie Brown, 1967-1978 Willie Brown was another outstanding player who reached new heights after Al Davis brought him to Oakland. The 6-1, 195-pound Brown was signed as an undrafted free agent out of Grambling by the Houston Oilers of the American Football League in 1963 but was cut during training camp.
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