Oakland - QB Russell Injures Throwing Arm Elbow, Missing Practice Time
JaMarcus Russell has been sidelined by an elbow injury to his throwing arm inflicted when he banged his arm into Darren McFadden’s helmet in Tuesday drills.
Coach Lane Kiffin said the trainers took him out of Wednesday practices as a precaution.
“We’ll look at it again in the morning,” said Kiffin, while noting that Russell did have X-rays on the injury - no serious problems were uncovered. “And really with that, it’s not something that is about looking at him in the training room. It’s about getting him out here… So (today) it’ll be the same thing as it was (Wednesday). We’ll bring him out here, warm him up. He’ll go through routes and see how far he can keep going.”
While Russell sits out, Andrew Walter has been taking a lot of snaps and looking fairly competent. As coach Kiffin puts it “He’s throwing really well,” Kiffin said. “If you can protect him, he can be a really good quarterback in this league … because he can throw the ball extremely well.”
For his part, Walter is surprised to still be on the team: “I thought I was going to be traded. To my knowledge there were at least two (deals) that were close to being done. I had two bags packed in my room. All I had to do was zip them up and I was out the door. ” However, Walter does acknowledge that “It’s a new year and a new day.”
Hopefully, Russell will be able to put the ding behind him quickly as there are a lot of new faces on the offense and he is still wet behind the ears when it comes to running the Raiders’ offense. Time will tell if Russell will justify the 1st pick the team invested in him last year…
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