Raiders’ Josh Jacobs expected to report back to team before Week 1; to play season opener vs. Broncos?

After months of discontent over his contract and repeated threats of keeping out into the 2023 season, Raiders operating back Josh Jacobs is expected to report to the team before Week 1, in accordance to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and showed via CBS Sports NFL Insider Josina Anderson.

Jacobs hasn’t participated in any portion of the Raiders’ offseason program since receiving the franchise tag in March. He time and again teased an go out from Las Vegas amid a failure to strike a long-term deal, even spearheading a gathering between different disgruntled operating backs. But now, with the preseason drawing near its conclusion, the Pro Bowler is about to go back and play “either on the terms of the $10.1 million franchise tag or a modified one-season salary,” in accordance to the Review-Journal.

It would mark a drastic concession from Jacobs at the contract entrance, however no longer an altogether sudden one. Consider the Giants’ Saquon Barkley, who additionally entertained an in-season holdout after receiving the tag this offseason, handiest to later agree to a revised one-year deal in New York. Former Vikings megastar Dalvin Cook will have not directly harm Jacobs’ leverage together with his personal negotiations, settling for a one-year, $7M handle the Jets regardless of coming off 4 instantly 1,100-yard speeding seasons in Minnesota.

Second-year reserve Zamir White has been dealing with the Raiders’ RB1 tasks in Jacobs’ absence. It’s imaginable, despite the fact that Jacobs returns in time for Sept. 10’s kickoff towards the Broncos, trainer Josh McDaniels may first of all break up carries between the 2.

“I think that (practice time is) important for every player,” McDaniels mentioned just lately, consistent with the Review-Journal. “This is the National Football League, so it’s not easy to go out there and just play games and do it at the speed and level that you want to do it at, unless you’ve really kind of had enough opportunity to get yourself ready to do that.”