SATURDAY: Ahead of this afternoon’s deadline to set Week 6 rosters, the Raiders activated Mariota off IR, Field Yates of ESPN.com tweets. He will retake his position as Carr’s backup for a pivotal matchup against the Broncos. The seventh-year veteran spent four weeks on Las Vegas’ IR list.
WENESDAY: The Raiders have designated quarterback Marcus Mariota for return from the injured reserve list. Now that he’s returned to practice, he has a 21-day window to be restored to the roster. 
Mariota saw a single snap in the season opener against the Ravens before being forced out with a quadriceps injury. Even though he’s not the starter in Las Vegas, the Raiders were hoping to use him as a change-of-pace option. They also could have used him this past week — Nathan Peterman‘s drive in relief of Derek Carr didn’t achieve much. Carr checked out okay afterwards, but the Bears ultimately beat the Raiders 20-9.
The former No. 2 overall pick of the Titans has spent the last two years in Vegas. Last year, he mostly held the clipboard and started just once. In his late-season outing against the Chargers, Mariota completed 17 of 28 throws for 226 yards with one touchdown against one interception.
The Raiders released QB Kyle Sloter from the taxi squad yesterday, a sign that Mariota could be activated as soon as this week.
Yesterday, ESPN had a long article stating that Gruden’s enablers should be called out & held responsible. Those emails were when he worked for ESPN! I’m guessing ESPN isn’t going to fire itself from the league.
Just wondering what this had to do with Marcus Mariota’s return? I appear to be missing some dot to connect. Did you get an email on this?
lol PFRumors turned off the comment section of the Gruden articles so some are just dying to get their uninteresting thoughts on the topic out
Well, not only that, but…
Have the people who are mad about Gruden being fired really thought through their “employers should be held responsible for their employee’s racist emails” stance?
Maybe considered whether that might boomerang to their detriment and whatnot?
What does this have to do with Mariota?
Marcus Mariota walking back into the building after coming off IR…
“Hi everybody, I’m feeling much better…hey, where’s Jon?”
I totally agree with opening all coaches, owners, and players emails up to everyone to see the content of those emails.
How is this worst then paying for s*x like Kraft did ? He didn’t get any punishment for his activities.
So Kraft should’ve been punished for something he was never charged with and everything was completely dropped ?
What he said was egregious and reprehensible for sure. But it was his personal email so no, I don’t think his personal emails should be opened up to the public. Or even his team emails at that. It’s none of our business. No matter how important we think we are or deserve to know because we bought a jersey.
Hilarious. All Raider topics on Gruden have been blocked?
I know this is a bit off-topic for a Mariota thread, but I am pleased to have him back. I see a few teams are starting to incorporate QB option plays into their playbook. I’d like to see a couple of plays scripted out for Mariota.