HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders waived cornerback Marcus Peters on Monday, a day after the ninth-year veteran was benched earlier than halftime of a 31-17 loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
The staff additionally waived security Roderic Teamer, two days after he was arrested and charged with DUI and dashing.
“Yeah, it is all the time troublesome when you need to launch a participant,” Raiders interim coach Antonio Pierce stated in his weekly information convention Monday. “That dialog, I do not look ahead to. Hate it. Hate it. It isn’t good. It isn’t a superb feeling.
“Me and MP had some good conversations all through this complete course of. I used to be the linebacker coach when he first obtained right here. On and off the sphere, [he’s] any person I respect as an individual. I respect what he is achieved on this sport. He is skilled, nevertheless it’s a enterprise. We’re all going to get minimize. We’re all going to get fired. Get employed to get fired, proper? So, he understands that; I perceive that. It is a part of enterprise that all of us hate for ourselves.”
Peters, 30, was signed to a one-year, $3 million free agent contract with $1.165 million assured and a roster bonus of $60,000 per sport lively on July 24 by the previous regime of basic supervisor Dave Ziegler and coach Josh McDaniels, and was anticipated to steer a younger and impressionable secondary.
And whereas Peters had a 75-yard pick-six on the Detroit Lions on Oct. 30, his seventh profession INT returned for a TD, he was extra identified this season for dropped interceptions and comically missed tackles.
It was after one other such whiffed sort out in opposition to the Chiefs on Sunday that Peters was taken off the sphere, and he engaged in a spirited sideline dialog with Pierce.
Peters, a two-time first-team All-Professional, bolted for the locker room at halftime, and after spending the second half on the sideline sporting a beanie, he left the locker room earlier than the media was allowed in following the sport.
In 116 profession video games and 115 begins, Peters has 33 interceptions. He was the 2015 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Yr for the Chiefs after selecting off a league-leading eight passes and returning two for scores. He was drafted by Kansas Metropolis within the first spherical, No. 18 total, out of Washington.
Peters was changed at cornerback in opposition to the Chiefs by Jack Jones, who was claimed off waivers from the New England Patriots two weeks in the past.
Teamer, in the meantime, was arrested Saturday night time on his approach to the staff lodge, per a supply, and charged with “DUI of alcohol and/or managed or prohibited substance” and a “primary dashing violation — 21-30 miles per hour over posted pace restrict” Saturday night time, per Las Vegas Justice Courtroom information.
Each costs have been listed as misdemeanors.
Teamer, 26, had simply been activated off injured reserve that day after having appeared in six video games, final enjoying on Oct. 15. He served an NFL-mandated four-game suspension in 2020 for violating the league’s substance abuse coverage.
Pierce stated the message to the staff was “simply making good choices” within the wake of Teamer being waived.
“I believe it goes for all of us,” Pierce stated. “The final word respect for Teamer as an individual, obtained to know him effectively, I had quite a lot of good conversations with him. I want him one of the best, typically it is improper timing, dangerous timing, and that is a type of circumstances. Determined to maneuver ahead.
“However I believe all our guys want to grasp this — no matter you do on and off the sphere impacts the choice that is going to be made on this constructing, and we will do one of the best to guard the model, the protect and the Raiders group.”
