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Ryan McFaddenOct 29, 2025, 06:01 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Ryan McFadden covers the Las Vegas Raiders for ESPN’s NFL Nation. Prior to ESPN, McFadden was a Denver Broncos beat reporter for the Denver Post. McFadden also wrote about the Baltimore Ravens and University of Maryland athletics for The Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n HENDERSON, Nev. — Ahead of the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>‘ matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> on Sunday, tight end Brock Bowers<\/a> said he’s “ready to roll” after missing three straight games to recover from a knee injury.<\/p>\n “The first part of the season was tough [and] not feeling 100%, but I’m closer now,” said Bowers, who was a full participant in practice Wednesday.<\/p>\n Bowers was sidelined from practice for two straight weeks before returning Oct. 17. He also participated in the Raiders’ two practices during the bye week and on Monday.<\/p>\n Raiders coach Pete Carroll said Bowers looks like he’s playing at full speed.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n “He’s back,” Carroll said. “Last week, he looked good every day, particularly good on the Monday practice. And he kind of stole the show a little bit. So, we’re thrilled to have him back.”<\/p>\n Bowers played through a posterior cruciate ligament injury and a bone bruise in his left knee that he suffered in the Raiders’ season-opening win over the New England Patriots<\/a>, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n The All-Pro pass catcher was active from Weeks 2 to 4 before he was shut down. While playing through an injury, Bowers totaled 14 catches for 122 yards and 8.7 yards per catch.<\/p>\n In his absence, the Raiders relied on tight ends Michael Mayer<\/a>, Ian Thomas<\/a> and Albert Okwuegbunam<\/a>. Mayer has nine catches for 60 yards and a touchdown in the past two games.<\/p>\n Bowers said it was “brutal” to be told by the coaching staff that he had to sit so he could receive proper rest.<\/p>\n “It sucked, to be honest,” Bowers said. “But it’s in the past. I’m excited to get back out there.”<\/p>\n Bowers looks forward to the Raiders’ passing game coming back together. It showed potential against the Patriots in Week 1 when quarterback Geno Smith<\/a> threw for 362 yards, a touchdown and an interception, with Bowers catching five passes for 103 yards.<\/p>\n Since then, Las Vegas has struggled. In the past six games, the Raiders have totaled 946 passing yards (32nd), a league-high nine interceptions and a quarterback rating of 26.6 (31st).<\/p>\n “Brock is a big part of our offense, and we missed him out there for sure,” Smith said. “He looked fine to me. So, really happy to have him back.”<\/p>\n In other injury news, starting defensive end Maxx Crosby<\/a> (back) and defensive tackle Adam Butler<\/a> (back) did not practice Wednesday. Both players sustained injuries in the Week 7 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Carroll, however, anticipates both players playing Sunday.<\/p>\n “[Butler will] probably practice on Friday, but we think he’s fine. We’re just giving him the maximum amount of rest that we can,” Carroll said. “[Butler and Crosby] are on the same program; we expect them both to play.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan McFaddenOct 29, 2025, 06:01 PM ET CloseRyan McFadden covers the Las Vegas Raiders for ESPN’s NFL Nation.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-259594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}