eason with one year remaining on a two-year, $24m contract, is reportedly set to join the Oakland Raiders on an incentive-laden deal. It requires franchises to look at minority candidates they might otherwise not consider, listen to their pitches and maybe make a choice they might not have made before. 33?BSTEx-NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who is already serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, was acq. A confidant of three commissioners, he played a major role in negotiations with the players’ union and in league expansion in 1976 to Seattle and Tampa.