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The Oakland Raiders made a flurry of free agency moves over the past week or so to improve a roster that desperately needed it after last year’s 7-9 finish. But the team’s most important pickup might not even be a Week 1 starter.
The addition of Marcus Mariota, who became a free agent after losing his job in Tennessee to Ryan Tannehill, gives Jon Gruden and Co. arguably the best backup quarterback in the league. The two-year, $17.5 million deal could reportedly be worth as much as $37.5 million over the life of the deal if he hits all the incentives packed into it.