Raiders’ Elijah Hood brought to tears at thought of playing with Marshawn Lynch

Posted Apr 29, 2017
The Raiders are just three days removed from signing Marshawn Lynch to be their powerful new running back. But in the seventh round of Saturday’s NFL Draft, they added another bruiser in North Carolina’s Elijah Hood, who was brought to tears by the idea of playing alongside Lynch. “I couldn’t imagine something like that,” Hood. (San Jose Mercury-News)

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