Jimmy Garoppolo has been everything the Raiders expected from a veteran QB, and rookie Aidan O'Connell has been a revelation this preseason.
Through two games, O'Connell has completed 72.2% of his passes for 304 yards, with three touchdowns and no interceptions. He has been sacked just once, posting a 125.4 passer rating.During the offseason, when the Raiders moved on from Pro Bowl quarterbackin favor of an injury prone Garoppolo and did not draft a QB of the future in the first round, NFL observers rightly wondered what McDaniels was doing at the most important position on the field.
"We've got three practices this week, we've got a preseason game, got three practices the following week, so kind of looking at it in totality. There's a lot of decisions and conversations to be had internally about what we're going do and how we're going to use this final preseason game coming up in Dallas."
Eric D. Williams has reported on the NFL for more than a decade, covering the Los Angeles Rams for Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Chargers for ESPN and the Seattle Seahawks for the Tacoma News Tribune. Follow him on Twitter at
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