Punter AJ Cole never even got a chance to say farewell to the Raiders facility in Alameda, California.

The franchise’s fourth relocation, this time to Las Vegas, occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. That altered the Raiders’ plans of conducting their offseason program in Alameda before transitioning to their new Henderson home.

“I had a storage unit up there and I never ended up going back,” said Cole, one of four players still on the roster who made the move. “I feel like in some ways I never got to say goodbye. I had stuff in the facility. I had stuff in the storage unit. So in some ways, it was super weird. Every now and then I catch myself telling a story to someone that starts, ‘When we were in Oakland,’ and I realize I sound so old when I say that. Because nobody even kno

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