There were a couple of Oakland Raiders debuts made Saturday night—just not Antonio Brown's.
In the Raiders' 14-3 win over the Los Angeles Rams in each team's first preseason game of 2019, J.J. Nelson caught both of his targets for 43 yards—including a game-long 38-yard catch while draped by Rams cornerback Dominique Hatfield during Oakland's opening drive.
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According to Adam Hill of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nelson had been taking advantage of Brown's dramatic absence from training camp last week because of frostbitten feet and disagreements over his helmet, and that translated into preseason Week 1.