Well, Mike Tice can’t call Gabe Jackson underrated anymore, not after the Raiders’ right guard signed a five-year contract extension worth $56 million last week.
“He was as good as anyone in the league toward the end of last season,” Tice, Oakland’s offensive line coach, said in a phone conversation Wednesday.
While Pro Bowl left guard Kelechi Osemele was going viral last season with online videos of his pancake blocking of opposing defensive players, Jackson was quietly going about his business on the other side of one of the NFL’s best offensive lines.