First in a series upcoming the Raiders and NFL free agency, which begins March 7:
For all the good things Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie has done in procuring talent over the past two seasons, identifying cornerbacks and safeties has been a problem area since he arrived in 2012.
Other than bringing in Charles Woodson, who had three good seasons to close out a Hall of Fame career, McKenzie has mostly swung and missed.
For three years, the Raiders looked to past-their-prime players to be starting cornerbacks, and they were predictably either injured or didn’t have enough left in the tank _ Ron Bartell and Shawntae Spencer in 2012, Mike Jenkins and Tracy Porter in 2013 and Tarell Brown and Carlos Rogers in 2014.