Silver and Black Report

BRUCE CAMPBELL

• OFFENSIVE LINE
• No: 74
• Height: 6’6”
• Weight: 315
• Birth date: 05/25/1988
• College: MARYLAND
• Acquired: Selected in the 4^TH round (106^TH overall) of the 2010 NFL Entry Draft

The Oakland Raiders got one of the most chiseled and athletically gifted linemen in the 2010 draft when they selected Bruce Campbell. Campbell started 17-of-27 games while at Maryland and in his starting assignments, the tackle recorded 116 knockdowns/key blocks with eleven touchdown resulting blocks.

Months before the draft, pundits and draft experts pegged him Oakland’s first round draft selection, instead the Silver & Black got good value on the draft’s final day by choosing a player at an area they had a need at. He stated after the draft, “I always feel like I have something to prove ever since the talk…ever since the combine where people said I was just a workout warrior. I always felt like all that stuff is good, but I am actually a good football player. So now I can prove to everybody that I am a good football player thanks to the Raiders.”

Oakland gave him time at guard in their recent minicamp in an attempt to give him more reps with the second team. “We need to expose him a little bit,” head coach Tom Cable said.

“This is actually my first time playing offensive guard and my first time on the right side,” Campbell stated. “Its just football. It’s still the same thing, just that I have a little more help and I’m inside. It’s not that bad at all.”