Daniel Loper and Michael Bennett signed contracts prior to the Collective Bargaining Agreement expiring. Loper signed for two years and $4.2 million. The contract contains $300,000 bonus and he will make $1.9 million in 2011 and $2 million in 2012. At that number he should be the favorite to start at left guard in 2011.Bennett signed a one-year $890,000 contract that makes him the primary insurance policy against losing Michael Bush.That means since the end of the regular season, the Raiders have signed or tagged the following players:Michael BennettDaniel LoperNick MillerRock CartwrightStanford RouttJohn HendersonRichard SeymourKamerion WimbleySamson SateleMichael BushZach MillerThe last three are likely to be unrestricted free agents when the league and the union agree on a new CBA. Michael Huff and Nnamdi Asomugha will also be unrestricted free agents. What was a huge free agent class for the Raiders has been whittled down to five key players. I theorized the Raiders would likely...
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