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The Raiders have placed rookie WR Arman Shields on the Injured Reserve List with a knee injury. Shields was only healthy enough to play in one preseason game for the Raiders and he caught 2 passes for 27 yards (13.5 avg). This is a bad break for the rookie as the Raiders might have given him a legit chance to play if he could have just stayed healthy.
The Raiders have cut running backs Adimchinobe Echemandu and Louis Rankin despite both having huge preseasons. Echemandu carried the ball 9 times for 107 yards (11.9 ypc) for the Raiders in the preseason. Undrafted rookie RB Louis Rankin was a star for the Raiders in the preseason with 21 carries for 148 yards (7.0 ypc). The fact that the Raiders could cut these guys tells you what they think of the three RBs that they kept.