RB Rhodes Chooses Raiders

[gibbs4president]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2792972

Colts' Super Bowl hero Rhodes chooses Raiders
By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com


Running back Dominic Rhodes, one of the heroes of the Indianapolis Colts' Super Bowl XLI championship less than two months ago, is headed to the team that finished the 2006 season with the league's worst record.

Rhodes on Friday morning agreed with the Oakland Raiders on a two-year contract that can be worth as much as $7.5 million, league sources confirmed for ESPN.com. Rhodes had generated considerable interest as an unrestricted free agent and made several visits, but met with Oakland officials earlier this week and was sold on the opportunity there.


The six-year veteran will serve as an insurance policy for the Raiders, in the event incumbent starter LaMont Jordan does not bounce back from the medial collateral ligament injury that limited him to nine games in 2006. More likely, however, the two will split the ball-carrying duties in the Oakland backfield.


Jordan earlier this week reworked his contract, reducing a roster bonus that was due him, to remain with the Raiders. After rushing for 1,025 yards in 2005, his first season in Oakland after four years with the New York Jets, Jordan slumped to 434 yards in 2006.

He carried 550 times for 2,274 yards and 19 touchdowns in six seasons and added 90 receptions for 649 yards and one touchdown.


Last year, in the Colts' Super Bowl season, Rhodes started all 16 regular-season games before rookie Joseph Addai replaced him in the lineup at the outset of the playoffs. But Rhodes still played a significant role in the postseason and, in the Super Bowl victory over the Chicago Bears, he rushed for a game-high 113 yards.

Rhodes still faces a drunken-driving charge in Indiana, where police said he was pulled over early the morning of Feb. 20 driving a truck 81 mph in a 55-mph zone on an Indianapolis-area interstate.

[Jake]

He must still be hungover.

[Skins2daGrave]

welcome to hell

[Fios]

The team might suck but you can't fault the man for the change of location

[xhadow]

Well I guess he figured he won the superbowl with the best now if only he can raise the dead...

[tcwest10]

Who's to say that the Raiders can't improve with new personnel?
I think it's a good move for him. Big pay day, new digs, crazy fans...and not in our division.

[SeanTaylorJr.]

I'm not sure how Dominic Rhodes will perform when he used to pick which hole he wanted to run through to gain the most yards, now he gets to choose the one (or lack thereof) that will lose the least