Considering that they let go of Michael Crabtree and signed a man nearly three years older to a contract worth up to $15 million, you could say the Raiders have bet the farm on Jordy Nelson.
The shoe fits, too. Nelson grew up on a farm in Kansas — 1,000 head of cattle on 4,000 acres. He still goes back most years to help with the wheat harvest before training camp and is fond of joking that it takes him awhile “to get back into farming shape.”
This next part is no joke, though.
“It set the foundation of who I am,” Nelson said of farm life.