Raiders RT Brown makes belated training camp debut
Raiders right tackle Trent Brown made his training camp debut Wednesday morning.
Brown had been present at the club facility in Henderson, Nevada, but hadn’t practiced with the team for undisclosed reasons. Raiders coach Jon Gruden had fended off Brown queries, saying Brown was “working,” and general manager Mike Mayock said Tuesday, “Trent’s in the process with the trainers. I think we’ll see him pretty soon, he’s looking good.”
The Raiders posted a photo of Brown suited up and in pads on their Twitter feed and reporters from ESPN and The Athletic both reported Brown’s presence at the practice session. After signing a four-year, $66 million contract in the 2019 offseason that temporarily made him the NFL’s highest paid offensive lineman, Brown was dominant on the Raiders offensive line but missed five games, the last four to a torn pectoral muscle.
Veteran Sam Young reportedly had been getting most of the work in Brown’s absence at right tackle since camp opened on July 28. SNYDER DENIES BEING INVOLVED
IN HARASSMENT >> The Washington Post on Wednesday reported additional examples of workplace sexual harassment inside the Washington Football Team organization, and allegations that owner Dan
Snyder was personally involved.
The Post reported a former cheerleader saying Snyder invited her to a hotel room with one of his friends, and that longtime team executive Larry Michael made extra cheerleading videos for the owner showing sensitive material that wasn’t made public. Snyder released a statement denying those specific allegations and saying he was unaware of the incidents until now.
“I want to unequivocally state that this never happened,” Snyder said of the report he invited a cheerleader to a hotel room in 2004. “Furthermore, I do not have any knowledge of the 10-year-old videos referenced in the story. I did not request their creation, and I never saw them.”
BENGALS PLAYER ARRESTED
WHILE SEARCHING FOR MISSING FATHER >> Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Mackensie Alexander was jailed on a charge of misdemeanor battery after deputies say he beat up a man shortly after returning to Florida to help search for his missing father.
Alexander, 26, and another man, 28-year-old Evins Clement, were arrested by Collier County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday night, not long after Alexander arrived back in southwest Florida where he grew up and his family still lives in the small farming community of Immokalee. Bail for the men was set at $2,000 each at a Wednesday afternoon court hearing, and they were released later that day.
“Mr. Alexander’s only concern is the well-being of his father,” the men’s attorney, Brian Pakett, said. “He wants to find him and find him well.”
Alexander had left Bengals training camp earlier Tuesday to assist the search for his 65-year-old father, Jean Alexandre, a Haitian immigrant who uses a French spelling of the family’s surname. Investigators say Mauricet Etienne told them he, Alexandre and others drove about 80 miles to pick palmetto berries in Okeechobee County on Monday.
According to a missing person’s report released Wednesday, Etienne, 56, said that after several hours of picking, he could not find Alexandre and spent three hours searching for him before returning to Immokalee to pick up Alexandre’s wife, Marie. They returned to Okeechobee County, where they searched for another 45 minutes before heading back to Immokalee and calling deputies.
Etienne told deputies he had no ill will toward Alexandre. He agreed he should have called law enforcement when he first discovered Alexandre was missing, but he said he was afraid because he had been previously told by deputies that he did not have permission to pick berries in that area.
The Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office said that they are searching for Alexandre but referred all other questions to Collier County.