LAS VEGAS -- While Patrick Graham is coming to the Las Vegas Raiders as their new defensive coordinator, he is not an unknown commodity to Raiders Pro Bowl defensive end Maxx Crosby. The two met on Crosby's pre-draft visit with the Miami Dolphins in 2019, when Graham was the Dolphins' defensive coordinator.
"We had a great talk," Crosby said of the visit, which came before the Raiders drafted him in the fourth round, 106th overall, out of Eastern Michigan.
"So once he got hired [by the Raiders Friday night], he called me like 20 minutes after I found out.