ALAMEDA -- The Raiders' regular season starts in less than two weeks. Their best player still isn’t in Alameda. Khalil Mack hasn’t been there since January, choosing to withhold services in search of a lucrative contract extension.
He doesn’t have one yet. That prompted him to stay away during voluntary portions of the offseason program, and hold out when he was required to work.
Mack has missed mandatory minicamp, training camp in Napa and three preseason games to this point. Odds of him reporting before Thursday’s exhibition finale are virtually nil.
None of that really matters.