Raiders Officially sign Devin Duvernay To Practice Squad
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The Las Vegas Raiders signed free agents Devin Duvernay to the practice squad, the club announced Wednesday.
Chaisson joins the Raiders after spending the past four seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was originally drafted by the Jaguars in the first round (20th overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft and has played in 57 career games with 11 starts and totaled 72 tackles (47 solo), five sacks, 11 tackles for loss and two passes defensed.
A native of Houston, Texas, Chaisson played three years at LSU and finished his college career with 92 tackles, 19 tackles for loss and 9.5 sacks.
Kelly was originally a fifth-round draft pick (157th overall) by the Baltimore Ravens in the 2023 NFL Draft and has also spent time with the Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers and Washington Commanders. He has appeared in eight games and recorded five tackles and one tackle for loss.
A native of Las Vegas, Nev., Blu Kelly played four seasons at Stanford and totaled 148 tackles, 26 passes defensed, three interceptions, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. He was named second team All-PAC 12 as a senior.
Prior to hiring J.J. Redick as their next head coach on June 24, the Los Angeles Lakers pursued UConn championship-winning coach Dan Hurley to become the next leader of the franchise.
After firing Darvin Ham in May, the Lakers’ interest in Hurley emerged in June. The Lakers met with Hurley, who was torn between joining the Lakers or staying at UConn to continue coaching college basketball and go after a three-peat.
Ultimately, Hurley opted to stay at UConn, who signed him to a six-year, $50 million contract weeks later.
Days after Hurley declined the option to join the Lakers, he rejected the notion that he turned down the Lakers as a ‘leverage’ play, and instead stated that he was not ready to leave what he had at UConn.
Hurley and his wife, Andrea, offered more insight into what led their decision to stay at UConn during a recent interview on In Depth with Graham Bensinger.
Reflecting on the decision, Andrea admits that they were “torn” between staying at UConn or heading to the Lakers. On one hand, they knew it was special for the Lakers to want Hurley as their head coach.
“To be proud is an understatement,” Andrea said of the Lakers’ pursuit of Hurley.
The option to join the Lakers proved alluring, but they chose to stay with the Huskies in large part because Hurley wanted to continue working with the young players on his team. Hurley noted that coaching college basketball players allows him to take on an important role in their lives and development as both players and people, which he could not do in the NBA
“I love being a part of this transformation for the last point in a young man’s life where you can really have a big impact on how their life is going to play out, like what the man becomes,” Hurley told Bensinger. That, to me, was what I realized that I love about being a college coach that you don’t get to do as an NBA coach because that’s not the relationship there. “