In less than a week the Raiders players will converge on the team’s Alameda facility for the first time to begin offseason workouts. No part of Jon Gruden’s new staff is more important in this early time than the strength and conditioning staff. That’s because the primary focus – three of the four hours on day one – will be spent in the weight room and the training room.
In that regard, the strength and conditioning staff will be among the first with whom these players will get a chance to become familiar.
The head of that group is Tom Shaw, with whom Gruden has known for some time.