The Oakland Raiders have decided to place their franchise tag on safety Tyvon Branch for the 2012 season. A player deemed to be given the franchise tag earns the average of the five highest-paid players at their position, earning Branch a reported $6.2 million should he sign the one-year tender. Branch was initially drafted by the Raiders in the fourth round of...

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that cutting cornerback Stanford Routt will cost the Oakland Raiders $2.2 million in salary-cap space in 2012. This will force the Silver & Black to go bargain shopping for help in the defensive backfield. One name that immediately comes into mind is Tracy Porter, who played for Dennis Allen in New Orleans and will be an...

Reggie McKenzie knew he inherited a roster full of wacky deals when he inked his general manager’s contract with the Raiders.  And one of his first goals was to purge the payroll and start righting some of the wrongs his predecessors committed. Today, the Oakland Raiders released Stanford Routt. The cornerback signed a three-year $31.5 million contract in...

With the conference championship games completed last Sunday, the 2012 Pro Bowl rosters have been finalized and both teams have begun practicing in Honolulu for Sunday’s game. Due to the New England Patriots playing in Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5 and numerous injuries around the league, the NFL was forced to replace a total of 16 players on the AFC roster....

The National Football League’s All Pro team was selected this week and no members of the Silver & Black were selected. Six Oakland Raiders received votes, but their cross bay rivals, the San Francisco 49ers, kept two stand out players off the squad. Sebastian Janikowski and Shane Lechler, who will represent the conference in the Pro Bowl, were runner-ups...