It’s never an encouraging sign when a player is still not able to practice with his teammates some 8 months after his initial injury. Such is the case with Raiders’ third year linebacker, Ben Heeney.
Heeney was lost to an ankle injury during the Raiders’ week four game of last season and placed on injured reserve. The seriousness of the injury was unknown at the time, but usually you would have expected he would be back and ready to go for OTA’s the following year. He is not.
“Yeah, he’s still a little bit banged [up],” Del Rio said of Heeney.