Three Las Vegas Raiders players who chose not to participate last season due to concerns about the COVID-19 were eliminated by the team on Monday.
Linebacker Ukeme Eligwe and defensive side Jeremiah Valoaga were dismissed and DJ Killings was released, the Raiders announced in a brief statement on Twitter.
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They were the only players on the team who chose to leave the season.
Eligwe, 26, was called up by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2017, where he played 14 games. He was discharged before the start of the 2018 season and then signed with the New York Giants, where he played 10 games before being discharged again in 2019. Eligwe was briefly hired by the New York Jets training team before joining on Raiders in December 2019.
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Valoaga signed with Detriot Lions as a non-hired free agent in 2017. He played in nine games, but was released before the start of the 2018 season. He played four games with the San Francisco 49ers before being claimed by the Raiders in December. 2019.
Killings, 25, also a non-hired free agent, spent time in the training squads of several teams before signing with Raiders in May 2019. He spent his first season on the injury reserve list and hasn’t played a game yet. of the NFL.
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Monday’s squad movements help Raiders clear the space needed for the limit. According to OverTheCap.com, Las Vegas is around $ 7.195 million above the salary cap.