At one point during training camp, Raiders coach Jon Gruden called backup quarterback Marcus Mariota a “dazzling playmaker.” His immediate future suddenly quite isn’t so bright.
Vic Tafur of TheAthletic.com explains that Mariota hasn’t become the potential alternative to Derek Carr that the one-year, $7.5 million investment would suggest. As Tafur explains it, the competition (if there ever was one) quickly became “no contest.”
Coincidentally, or not, Carr has praised the player who clearly won’t be a threat to take Carr’s starting spot.
“He’s doing a fantastic job,” Carr said recently, via Tafur.