NAPA — Trent Richardson is motivated to jump start his career again.
The Raiders running back took the first step in that direction when he made his training camp debut Thursday and set the record straight on his absence from the first five days of practice.
“I had pneumonia,” Richardson said. “It was in the back of my lungs, so that’s nothing to play with.”
Richardson heard reports that suggested he was overweight, and while he wouldn’t say he grew frustrated by them, he responded.
“I was nowhere near overweight,” he said. “I actually came back in around 222.