Knee injuries had already sidelined two of the Raiders’ three best players going into Sunday’s Week 7 game at the Chiefs.
Before the end of the first half, it became all three. Las Vegas rusher Maxx Crosby exited with a knee and back pain in the second quarter at Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium after a low, but legal, block from Kansas City tight end Noah Gray.
What little energy the Raiders had shown earlier in the game evaporated even further without their leader, as they fell to an embarrassing 31-0 defeat to the archrival Chiefs.
Las Vegas goes into its bye week with a 2-5 record, and virtually no hope of a turnaround in coach Pete Carroll’s first season.
The Raiders have now lost their last three road games by an average of more than 27 points per game with the beatdown at the Chi