The Las Vegas Raiders are starting to make personnel decisions quickly with free agency looming.
As expected, linebacker Cory Littleton, is being released, according to ESPN. He is expected to be officially cut by the start of the new league year, which begins Wednesday.
Littleton will be a post-June 1 release. Thus, Las Vegas will not get salary-cap relief for him until June 2 when free agency is all but over. But still, his cap relief will help. There will also be some 2023 dead money involved.
The Raiders signed Littleton to a three-year, $35 million deal in free agency in 2020.