People were surprised the other day to hear that Raiders receiver Seth Roberts played last season with a double hernia. Count head coach Jack Del Rio among them.
“It was news to me,” Del Rio said. “I said (to him), ‘Hey, really?’ ... He said, ‘Yeah, I didn’t tell you.’ I said, ‘Well, who did you tell?’ He said, ‘I didn’t tell anybody.’ I said, ‘OK, well, that’s your right. You didn’t miss any practices.’ He said, ‘Nope.’ OK.”
Roberts not only played all 16 games with the injury but did not miss a practice (and obviously was not listed on a weekly injury report).