The Oakland Raiders officially activated DE Jihad Ward and TE Cooper Helfet from PUP list on Monday.
Ward, 23, is a former second-round pick of the Raiders back in 2016. He’s currently in the second of his four-year, $5.539 million contract and stands to make base salaries of $701,809 and $953,618 over the next two years of the agreement.
In 2016, Ward appeared in all 16 games for the Raiders and recorded 30 tackles, no sacks, a fumble recovery and a pass defense.
Helfet, 28, wound up signing on with the Seahawks as an undrafted free agent out of Duke back in 2012.