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Raiders fined by NFL for breaking injury report rules

In addition to the myriad issues surrounding the Raiders on their bye week, it looks like the team is now in hot water for failing to comply with NFL rules regarding their injury report.

Source: The #Raiders have been fined $20,000 for violating the NFL Injury Report Policy for failing to downgrade G Kelechi Osemele from “questionable” to “out” when he didn’t travel with the team to their Week 5 game vs the #Chargers in LA.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 18, 2018

When a player who is listed on the injury report throughout the week is injured enough to not make a trip to a game, an NFL team is supposed to re-issue a new injury report that downgrades him to “Out”.