dhb best practice

[RaidamanI]

OTA quick hits - Inside the Oakland Raiders - A look inside the world of the highly classified Oakland Raiders from the writers of Bay Area News Group

[BVJ]

– Great moment at the close of practice when Jailen Cooper, age 10, flattened his favorite Raider, Darren McFadden, in the midst of a gauntlet of Raiders chanting his name.

Jailen had surgery to remove a tumor from is pituitary gland in December of 2008 and has undergone a rough road with chemotherapy. His visit was arranged by the Raiders and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Jailen’s mother, Jessie, reports her son is doing fine, a recent MRI showed no tumor and the prognosis is good for a full recovery.

The Raiders sent Jailen a No. 1 jersey with his name on the back and he addressed the media following practice along with Cable. Raiders CEO Amy Trask said there were a lot of lumps in a lot of throats at the reaction of Jailen when he saw a locker which was set up for him in the Raiders’ locker room.

More to come later . . .

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Awesome.

[jtagg7754]

LOL @ McFadden getting tackled by a 10 y/o

[Sonic Raider]

Good to see Darrius Heyward-Bey looking better and better now. Even though it is just OTAs but hoepfully it will carry over to the regular season

BTW, great story with that young man from the Make-A-Wish foundation. Props to the team, and McFadden on that

[jtagg7754]

BTW, great story with that young man from the Make-A-Wish foundation. Props to the team, and McFadden on that

I'm guessing McFadden was trying to juke him... like for real. It's what we're used to from him so why think any different ha ha

[YoungLegend]

LOL @ McFadden getting tackled by a 10 y/o

I believe it

But good to hear about DHB

[MMARaider]

– Can’t roll my eyes anymore when Tom Cable tells how much Darrius Heyward-Bey has improved. Best practice I’ve ever seen him have, and there isn’t anything else that’s even a close second.

Perhaps the offense is throwing beachballs to DHB instead of footballs. He might be able to catch those.

[tonybobb1]

I thought they outlawed 'stickum' years ago.
Seriously, great job DHB...keep it up!

Big props to Jailen!!!

[nor_cal_raider7]

The make a wish foundation does some great things for kids. I'm glad I donate every year.

[RaidamanI]

Glad to see DHB doing well. This should help his confidence. Hopefully he can keep this up through training camp and of course, the season.

[kennyrat923]

Great story.

[TerryDizzle]

make a wish is great..

dhb keep it up man we are pulling for you to do great things this year...

and jason good job getting it to him..

[BoJack247]

LOL @ McFadden getting tackled by a 10 y/o

nice story about the 10 year old but could it of been any other RB other than McFadden.

he's already got a reputation for going down easy and this can't help.

[BVJ]

I am pulling for DHB. It is easy to pull for someone who has such an impeccable work ethic (as reported, I personally don't know obviously).

[RickyRich]

LOL @ McFadden getting tackled by a 10 y/o

I think McFadden got tackled by a grasshopper before the kid got to him!