In April of this year, cornerback Daryl Worley was arrested in Pennsylvania on charges of DUI, possessing firearms in public and resisting arrest. He was promptly released by his then-team, the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, who had traded Torrey Smith to the Panthers for him as soon as the 2018 league year began. The Raiders then signed him to a one year deal worth about $680,000.
But the spectre of Worley’s legal troubles remained, and the Raiders knew that they would eventually have to cross that bridge with their new young, talented corner.