Sometimes a player just seems like their addition to a team just has to happen. For the Raiders’ new coaching staff, they’ve been looking to familiar faces a lot. Just the staff alone were almost entirely coaches with ties to Josh McDaniels and GM Dave Ziegler. They have taken a similar approach with many of the players they’ve signed of late.
Just today, they officially announced the addition of RB Brandon Bolden and FB Jakob Johnson, both of whom played the past few years in McDaniels’s offense in New England. Their biggest free agent signing thus far has been Chandler Jones, who played for the Patriots to begin his career.
So too did Logan Ryan who was a 2013 third round pick by the Patriots and spent four seasons in New England, winning two Super Bowls, and was a fulltime starter for the second one.
