Top 10 Former Tennessee Vols in the NFL Going Into the 2015 Season
Jun 9, 2015; Oakland, CA, USA; Oakland Raiders tight end Mychal Rivera (81) catches a pass at minicamp at the Raiders practice facility. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Mychal Rivera. 7. player. 28. <p>Let us first offer our most serious condolences to Mychal Rivera. An elite tight end in the NFL, the poor guy is stuck in that black hole up in Oakland, which prevents him from having any chance to truly shine. Ask so many guys how much better they have been since they left that area.</p> <p>The one saving grace for Rivera is, well, that he has actually performed up there even though his team has failed miserably to do so. As a 6’3″ 245 pound tight end, Rivera came away with an impressive 101 receptions for 534 receiving yards and four touchdowns last year, an improvement over his first season in the NFL in terms of numbers.</p><div class=. Tight End. Oakland Raiders
Even better than that, with the addition of Amari Cooper along with Derek Carr as the quarterback, the Raiders should be able to have a solid, consistent passing game this year. Carr is accurate and smart and should develop into the most solid quarterback the Raiders have had since Jason Campbell in 2011. And that will give Rivera a chance to shine.
This is not to say that Oakland will be anything worth talking about this year as a football team overall, but Mychal Rivera should be good enough to raise quite a few eyebrows, and according to multiple sources, he has been impressing a lot of people in practice already going into the season.
Perhaps he and Cooper with Carr throwing the ball can give Raider Nation something to cheer about after all going into this year.
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Mychal Rivera
Tight End, Oakland Raiders
Let us first offer our most serious condolences to Mychal Rivera. An elite tight end in the NFL, the poor guy is stuck in that black hole up in Oakland, which prevents him from having any chance to truly shine. Ask so many guys how much better they have been since they left that area.
The one saving grace for Rivera is, well, that he has actually performed up there even though his team has failed miserably to do so. As a 6’3″ 245 pound tight end, Rivera came away with an impressive 101 receptions for 534 receiving yards and four touchdowns last year, an improvement over his first season in the NFL in terms of numbers.
Even better than that, with the addition of Amari Cooper along with Derek Carr as the quarterback, the Raiders should be able to have a solid, consistent passing game this year. Carr is accurate and smart and should develop into the most solid quarterback the Raiders have had since Jason Campbell in 2011. And that will give Rivera a chance to shine.
This is not to say that Oakland will be anything worth talking about this year as a football team overall, but Mychal Rivera should be good enough to raise quite a few eyebrows, and according to multiple sources, he has been impressing a lot of people in practice already going into the season.
Perhaps he and Cooper with Carr throwing the ball can give Raider Nation something to cheer about after all going into this year.
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