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Raiders defender Derek Carr will have to push him back to the field for his next game.
Carr’s groin injury will take 10-14 days to heal, says NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
The Raiders’ next game is eight days away on Saturday, December 26 against the Dolphins. So Carr will have to come back sooner than the Raiders expect to be there in an absolutely mandatory game for the Raiders.
If Marcus Mariota starts for the Raiders in Week 16 and defeats the Dolphins, they may decide to stay with Mariota and hope he can keep his thin playoff hopes alive in Week 17. If the Raiders lose to the Dolphins, they are eliminated mathematically. from the playoff dispute, and the Raiders may decide to play it safe and place it. So it is very possible that we will not see Carr again until the 2021 season.