Since the end of the season, many have chalked it up as a foregone conclusion that Michael Crabtree won’t be back. He barely saw the field in the season finale, seeing just 17 snaps, a week after seeing less than half the team’s offensive snaps (45%). He saw a total of 5 targets in those games with 2 catches for 17 yards. Clearly he was falling out of favor.
In the midst of this, reports came out that the Raiders were planning on moving on from him. That whole idea was suddenly on hold when in the minutes following the team’s season ending loss to the Chargers in Los Angeles, Jack Del Rio was fired.