Raiders will host Rams for joint training camp practices

The Raiders will host the defending Super Bowl runners-up Los Angeles Rams for two joint training camp practices this year, the Raiders announced Monday morning.

The Rams will join the Raiders at their Napa training complex on Aug. 7 and 8 before their Week 1 preseason game on Aug. 10 in Oakland. This marks the second straight year the Raiders have hosted joint practices in Napa after the Detroit Lions visited in 2018.

Raiders coach Jon Gruden hired Rams coach Sean McVay to his first NFL coaching position in 2008, when Gruden was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and McVay became an assistant wide receivers coach. McVay has skyrocketed up the league’s coaching ranks in the last decade, and since becoming head coach of the Rams in 2017 has won AP Coach of the Year and appeared in a Super Bowl.

Gruden and the Raiders are coming off a 4-12 season, and they’ll appear on HBO’s Hard Knocks starting Aug. 6.

The Raiders host the Rams at 5 p.m. PST in their first preseason game, then visit the Arizona Cardinals (5 p.m. on Aug. 15), play the Green Bay Packers in Winnipeg (5 p.m. on Aug. 22) and visit the Seattle Seahawks (7 p.m. on Aug. 29) to round out their preseason slate.

The Raiders’ first regular season game comes Sept 9. at 7:20 p.m. against the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football in Oakland.