Raiders unsure of Porter's status

[Cntrygal]

Rich Gannon, who missed one play in Sunday night's loss to the Titans with a twisted left knee, should be able to pass the football when the Raiders face Cincinnati in their home opener Sunday.

The numbers of those who catch it are diminishing.


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[Cntrygal]

Jerry Porter has a strained stomach muscle and the Oakland Raiders are busy trying to figure out who to use as a deep threat come Sunday against Cincinnati.

The candidates are: Alvis Whitted, Ronald Curry and draft pick Doug Gabriel — practically no-names in this high-octane offense led by quarterback Rich Gannon, Jerry Rice, Porter and Tim Brown. While any of those three backups could be capable, they are also unproven.

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[BillsFever]

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) -- Oakland Raiders receiver Jerry Porter will undergo surgery Friday in Florida on what has now been diagnosed as a hernia.

He traveled to Florida on his own Wednesday to seek a second opinion on what was initially diagnosed by Raiders doctors as a strained stomach muscle
Porter re-aggravated the injury that kept him out of the last two preseason games during the second quarter of the Raiders' 25-20 loss at Tennessee last Sunday.

He's coming off a breakthrough season in which he had a team-best and career-high nine receiving touchdowns and caught 51 passes for 688 yards.

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[STAMPY]

i heard he's out 4 weeks... i dropped him from my fantasy team and picked up moldin

[Cntrygal]

Thanks for the update BBS.... do ya have a link for that?

[The_Philster]

In 24 hours, the Raiders' injury report grew in size and increased in gravity. The team announced Thursday that Jerry Porter, the fourth-year receiver who led the Raiders in touchdowns last season with nine, is scheduled to undergo hernia surgery today in Tampa Fla., where he traveled Wednesday to seek a second opinion about his lingering abdominal injury.

And starting free safety Rod Woodson, who underwent left knee surgery Tuesday night, was officially declared out of Sunday's home opener against the Cincinnati Bengals at the Coliseum.

NFL sources said Porter's operation will be handled by Dr. Daniel Diaco, a top board-certified plastic surgeon who has performed a similar procedure on Buccaneers safety John Lynch and has no affiliation with the Raiders. One prognosis has Porter missing a minimum of three weeks, although a source close to the receiver said he's expected to be out much longer....

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[The_Philster]

Wide receiver Jerry Porter looked none the worse for wear as he drove his SUV into the players' parking lot at the Coliseum, despite the surprising finding during his hernia surgery on Friday.

"Two of them. Two hernias,'' said Porter, who had both tears repaired in an arthroscopic procedure performed by specialist Dr. Daniel Diaco in Tampa, Fla. "I feel pretty good right now but it was worse than they thought.''

Porter was released from a Tampa hospital Friday morning and returned to the Bay Area. The Raiders' touchdown leader in 2002 will be out an indefinite period, though NFL sources said his recovery will take a minimum of six weeks....

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[The_Philster]

Wide receiver Jerry Porter has promised the Raiders his absence will be shorter than expected.

In the meantime, the team is scrambling for ways to do without him.

The Raiders have stopped predicting return time for injured players, but early guesses were that Porter, who had a "multiple'' hernia operation last week, would miss six to eight weeks. ...more (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/18/SPGLF1PBP31.DTL)

[The_Philster]

Eight Raiders missed practice Wednesday, but the biggest news was one who made it. Wide receiver Jerry Porter, who has played in only one quarter during the regular season and underwent hernia surgery Sept. 12, was on the practice field for the first time since his operation.

He was limited to individual drills and "walk-through'' sessions and is still listed as doubtful for Sunday's game against the Browns in Cleveland. "He is progressing,'' coach Bill Callahan said. "He's not where he should be right now, but he could be there by the end of the week. ...

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