None of the Raiders past 253 kickoff returns resulted in a touchdown, a drought dating back to 2011.
Insert: Cordarrelle Patterson.
The Raiders bolstered their return game Monday night by signing arguably the league’s best kickoff returner over the past four seasons, when Patterson excelled in that role for the Minnesota Vikings.
Of Patterson’s five career kickoff returns for touchdowns, one came against the host Raiders midway through 2015, when he raced untouched 93 yards for a go-ahead score in the Vikings 30-14 win.
“I remember it like it was yesterday,” Patterson said Tuesday on a media conference call.