Sometimes, football fate meets football reality.
Such is the case for Germaine Pratt and the Las Vegas Raiders.
When the veteran linebacker found himself cast aside by the Cincinnati Bengals — the team that drafted him in the third round (72nd overall) of the 2019 NFL Draft — the proclamations the Silver & Black sign a much-needed defender to bolster a position of need arrived faster and with more determination than Bo Jackson when he took the handoff against the Seattle Seahawks back in 1987.
Raider Nation and reporters alike quickly connected the dots on a Pratt-Raiders union.