Raiders QB O'Connell 'good to go' vs. Jaguars

HENDERSON, Nev. -- Las Vegas Raiders backmost Aidan O'Connell "should beryllium bully to go" and commencement Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Raiders coach Antonio Pierce said Friday.

This aft O'Connell was carted disconnected the section while wearing an aerial formed connected his near limb connected Dec. 8 astatine the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and missing Monday night's nonaccomplishment to the Atlanta Falcons.

He has practiced successful a afloat capacity this week.

"It felt great," O'Connell said earlier this week. "Yeah, it felt really good. It's ever nosy conscionable being retired location pinch the guys again and, yeah, the assemblage felt great."

O'Connell mislaid a training campy conflict to free supplier signee Gardner Minshew but took complete for an ineffective Minshew successful Week 6.

A surgery thumb connected his correct (passing) manus suffered successful his 2nd commencement sidelined O'Connell for 4 games earlier he again replaced Minshew, who suffered a season-ending surgery collarbone connected Nov. 24.

O'Connell past suffered the knee wounded astatine Tampa Bay and was replaced by Desmond Ridder against the Falcons.

"I decidedly person watched a batch much than I wanted to this year, from the sideline aliases from wherever, and truthful it's decidedly been frustrating not being connected the field," said O'Connell, who has started 4 of the six games successful which he's played this season. "I deliberation I learned a batch successful precocious schoolhouse and successful college, some having to benignant of beryllium connected the chair for a while and hold my turn. [That] decidedly taught maine patience.

"But astatine the aforesaid time, I deliberation I cognize what it's for illustration to person to activity and erstwhile you're not retired location and possibly not beryllium capable to spot the advancement time by day, but [I] conscionable benignant of person to spot the process."

O'Connell, who started 10 games for the Raiders arsenic a rookie, has passed for 899 yards pinch 4 touchdowns and 3 interceptions while completing 63.2% of his passes.

"If you conscionable unrecorded crippled by game, I deliberation that's a vulnerable spot to beryllium and truthful I'm decidedly going to attraction and make it a one-game season," he said. "But there's a batch of shot to beryllium played, I hope, successful the remainder of my career.

"So I'm conscionable taking the opportunity arsenic it is and, I think, erstwhile you put excessively overmuch unit connected yourself, you put yourself successful a bad position. So I'm conscionable going to fastener successful and attraction connected this week and whatever's to travel aft that, I'll interest astir it later."

The Raiders, who person mislaid 10 consecutive games, are tied pinch the New York Giants for the worst grounds successful the convention astatine 2-12, while the Jaguars are 3-11.