{"id":104863,"date":"2025-06-05T02:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/104863\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T02:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T02:27:14","slug":"raiders-16-million-free-agent-signing-returns-to-practice-after-brief-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/104863\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders’ $16 Million Free Agent Signing Returns to Practice After Brief Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raiders’ $16 Million Free Agent Signing Returns to Practice After Brief Absence<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Las Vegas Raiders’ new regime took a handful of gambles during the 2025 NFL free agency period. They let high-dollar players like Robert Spillane, Nate Hobbs and Tre’Von Moehrig leave without contracts in favor far cheaper options.<\/p>\n

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New general manager John Spytek also attacked the NFL Draft, bringing in a franchise-record 11 players. Competition is the name of the game under head coach Pete Carroll, which makes the offseason program critical for the Silver and Black.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the team has been missing one of its key defenders, defensive tackle Christian Wilkins. He is still recovering from a broken foot that he suffered in Week 5 of last season against the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n

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Las Vegas Raiders S Jeremy Chinn (11).Eric Hartline-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Veteran safety Jeremy Chinn also missed a Raiders OTA practice last week for an undisclosed reason. Fans were worried about this news, especially because the team gave him a $16 million deal\u00a0<\/a>in free agency this offseason.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, The Athletic’s Tashan Reed reported<\/a> on Wednesday that Chinn was back at practice after his brief absence. Wilkins was still gone, however, as was veteran defensive tackle Adam Butler.<\/p>\n

Chinn played for the Washington Commanders last season after spending the first four years of his career with the Carolina Panthers. He recorded 117 tackles in 2024, including seven for a loss, and he added five pass deflections and an interception.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas will be replacing starting safeties Tre’Von Moehrig and Marcus Epps from last season, so Chinn will be leaned on heavily by coach Carroll and defensive coordinator Patrick Graham.<\/p>\n

The Raiders have one final OTA workout on Thursday before mandatory minicamp begins next Monday. After that three-day camp, the team will break for the summer.<\/p>\n

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Related: Maxx Crosby Casts Doubt on Travis Hunter’s Two-Way Chances<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Broncos Cut Ties With Former Raiders TE After Failed Physical<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 4, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders’ $16 Million Free Agent Signing Returns to Practice After Brief Absence originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[260,1521,258,7,1816,4949,1744,393,2455,2454,5392,6,15,3976,525,9591,26831,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-104863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-carolina-panthers","9":"tag-christian-wilkins","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jeremy-chinn","13":"tag-john-spytek","14":"tag-las-vegas","15":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","16":"tag-lasvegas","17":"tag-lasvegasraiders","18":"tag-nate-hobbs","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nfl-draft","21":"tag-pete-carroll","22":"tag-raiders","23":"tag-robert-spillane","24":"tag-trevon-moehrig-2","25":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114628398102638197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}