Raiders Safety Nate Allen Out After Knee Injury!?!

Nate Allen injured his knee during the season opener against the Cincinnati Bengals and now the Raiders Safety Nate Allen Out After Knee Injury.

CelebNMusic247.com has learned via the BleacherReport that the Raiders safety Nate Allen knee injury has put him on the injured reserve on Sept. 15 thanks to an MRI on Monday showed Allen tore his MCL.

We have also learned that Allen was placed on IR with the designation to return, the team announced.

While Allen is enduring a lot of swelling in his knee, he didn’t tear his ACL and is expected to miss “several weeks,” per Rapoport on Sept. 14.

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Allen’s absence is concerning for a squad that finished a middling 16th in the league against the pass in 2014. One of reasons the Raiders brought Allen in during the offseason was to shore up that pass coverage.

The second-round pick in the 2010 draft played five seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles and turned in his best campaign with a team-high four interceptions and three fumble recoveries in 2014. Only seven players in the entire NFL finished with more interceptions last year than Allen.

Missing that production wasn’t the only problem for Oakland following Allen’s departure, as Associated Press freelance reporter and Silver and Black Illustrated writer Michael Wagaman pointed out.

Thoughts?