Free agency explained | Raiders 2007 draft picks
Listed alphabetically
Unrestricted free agents (3)
Derrick Gibson, SS - not tendered
Corey Hulsey, G - not tendered
Grant Irons, LB - not tendered
Terdell Sands, DT - re-signed, 2/14/07 (4 years, $17 million incl. $4 million signing bonus) (details)
Chad Slaughter, T - re-signed, 3/12/07 (terms unknown)
Duane Starks, CB - re-signed, 3/23/07 (one year, $720,000)
Robert Thomas, LB - re-signed, 2/14/07 (3 years, $6 million incl. $1.5 million signing bonus) (details)
Marques Tuiasosopo, QB - signed with the New York Jets (one year, $595,000)
Langston Walker, T - signed with Buffalo, 3/3/07 (5 years, $25 million, $5 signing bonus; reportedly $10 million guaranteed)
Alvis Whitted, WR - re-signed, 3/9/07 (terms unknown)
Restricted free agents (0)
(With compensation, if any)
Adimchinobe Echemandu, RB (7th-round pick) - re-signed, 3/5/07 (terms unknown)
Tommy Kelly, DT-DE (right of first refusal) - re-signed, 3/1/07 (one year, $1.35 million base salary; some reports also mentioned a $500,000 signing bonus)
ReShard Lee, RB (right of first refusal) - re-signed, 5/7/07 (one year, $850,000)
Exclusive rights free agents (2)
James Adkisson, TE - re-signed, March 2007 (reported on 3/22/07)
Isaiah Ekejiuba, OLB - re-signed, March 2007 (reported on 3/22/07)
DeJuan Green, RB - not tendered
Anttaj Hawthorne, DT - re-signed, March 2007 (reported on 3/22/07)
Kevin Huntley, DE - re-signed, March 2007 (reported on 3/22/07)
Michael Quarshie, DT - not tendered
Players with less than four accrued seasons who were not timely tendered a contract—by March 1, 2007—immediately became eligible to sign with any other team with no compensation to their original club. In effect Green and Quarshie are now unrestricted free agents. So, initially, was Joe Echemandu, because he was not tendered by Mar. 1, but the Raiders subsequently signed him to a new contract on or about Mar. 5.
Source(s): Sports Xchange, San Jose Mercury News, Gerald Hibbard, The Red Zone, NFL.com, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Contra Costa Times, Raiders.com, our own database.
Last updated Tuesday, June 12, 2007