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One of the more perplexing coaching decisions that we have seen so far this season is the suddenly dwindling playing time of 2nd year CB Gareon Conley. Originally coming out of the preseason Conley was a starter but has since seen less and less snaps culminating in his having no defensive snaps against the Seattle Seahawks in London before the Raiders bye week.The lack of playing time led to an increased amount of callers interested in acquiring Conley’s services but so far the Raiders have not pulled the trigger on any trade offers. It appears that his time on the bench might just be coming to an end now though as Raiders defensive coordinator Paul Guenther says that Conley will be playing again so that the coaches can see what he can do.“I’ve said this every week Womens Derek Carr Jersey , I’d like to get to two starting corners and Conley is in that mix.” Guenther said at his press conference this week. “He’s going to play a lot in this ballgame. Just trying to find what’s the best combination of guys and you can only do it when they are out there, so Conley’s played a lot in the first four or five ballgames. He will continue to play a lot more as we go because we need to continue to see what he can do.” That will be good news to many Raiders fans who were miffed by the lack of snaps for Gareon Conley over the past couple of games. Conley was Oakland’s first round pick last year in 2017 but he missed basically the entire season with injuries. Coming into this season it had appeared through the off-season that he had regained his form from Ohio State but then had some struggles in the first few weeks of the season before being benched.According to Paul Guenther, that was all just a calculation to further evaluate who should be starting for the team though. It would seem like you could have made those decisions while still allowing a young, growing player onto the field at least a little bit but that wasn’t the direction Guenther and the Raiders had taken. They had decided that it was what they needed to do in order to figure out who should be playing more instead of having a rotation of players.“This is the first time as a defensive coordinator where it’s kind of like ‘hey, who’s going to be the starting corners, who’s going to be the linebackers, defensive line?’, because there has been a revolving set of guys in here which makes it a little difficult for the communication of everything. Conley is a guy that’s going to play a lot for us in this stretch and hopefully he plays good.”It’s safe to say we all will be hoping Conley plays well because there are not very many pre-Jon Gruden era draft picks left on the team. If he plays badly coming back from this stint of being on the bench then it could signal another sad end for a high round Raiders draft pick. If anything has been made clear this season it is that Jon Gruden has no interest in waiting to see if other people’s draft picks fit his plans.Hopefully after getting sat like this it will reinvigorate Conley and that we will finally get to see the player that Reggie McKenzie thought he was getting with his first round pick last year. He hasn’t been awful when on the field and he has managed to stay healthy since returning from an injury late in training camp. He certainly has talent or the phones wouldn’t be ringing with other teams wanting to trade for him.It’s his time now to show he belongs as a starter and building block for this rebuilding Raiders team. With all that’s been going on with the Raiders there is no doubt that Gareon Conley absolutely knows that he won’t be given many more chances after this if he doesn’t step up his game. Nobody on the Raiders team should feel safe at this point, not Gareon Conley or anybody else. MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — John Cominsky has more people watching Senior Bowl practices this week than he figures would typically attend his games at Division II Charleston.“We maybe had three or four hundred people max at our games watching us play,” the defensive lineman said. “Just the attention here has been completely new to me. A lot of these guys are used to it from the Power 5 schools. This is an experience I’ve never had. I can’t help but smile and be excited about it.”He’s not alone.While the Senior Bowl rosters are littered with players from Power 5 schools as usual — some of whom are already household names among college and NFL fans — there’s plenty of others looking to make an impression. That includes small-school stars who caught the attention of NFL teams while playing in front of small crowds away from the glamour of major college football. Saturday’s Senior Bowl will be the first nationally televised games for some.Players like Cominsky, Delaware cornerback Nasir Adderley and high school quarterback-turned left tackle Tytus Howard of Alabama State are competing against their big-school counterparts all week in front of NFL scouts, coaches and executives.Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden, who’s leading the North team, can relate to them somewhat as a product of the University of Dayton.“It’s huge. Carson Wentz proved a couple of years ago it doesn’t matter where you come from,” Gruden said. “There’s been a lot of obscure schools represented here. I think these guys have a chip on their shoulder, some of them. They want this. This is the only chance they can get to prove that they belong with the big boys. So keep an eye on a lot of these schools that aren’t your Power 5 conferences.”All told, the Senior Bowl rosters include 11 FCS players and three from Division II Antonio Brown Raiders Jersey , including Cominsky. He arrived at Charleston as a 215-pound quarterback but measured in this week at 6-foot-5, 285 pounds.Now, NFL teams are getting a chance to see how he fares against bigger, stronger, faster blockers than he typically faced.“It’s a golden opportunity because the competition at D-2 just doesn’t cut it for these scouts,” Cominsky said. “It’s exciting to watch me run through somebody’s face but not when it’s at the Division II level. They want to see it bigger, better. You see these offensive linemen walking around here, these are the guys they want to see me do it to.”Gruden said small college products like wide receivers Keelan Doss (UC Davis) and Penny Hart (Georgia State) helped themselves in Wednesday’s practice, and also cited Cominsky. The practice was moved to South Alabama’s indoor facility because of the weather.“This Cominsky kid is also making people check the rosters to see who he is,” Gruden said.Here’s a look at a few of the other intriguing small-school products at the Senior Bowl:— Khalen Saunders, DT, Western Illinois: Missed the birth of daughter Kambridge Vonyea Saunders Tuesday to pursue his NFL dream in Mobile. “There’s no doubt if I love the game or not,” he said.The 6-foot, 320-pounder gained some attention for backflips and even caught a touchdown pass his senior season in addition to his defensive performance.He received scholarship offers from Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Auburn and Missouri out of high school — as a shot putter.— Andy Isabella, WR, UMass: Not an FCS product Womens Antonio Brown Jersey , but one who’s still from a lower profile program. One of three finalists for the Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s top receiver. Second-team Associated Press All-American after leading the FBS with 1,698 yards on 102 catches. How’d he fare against Power 5 teams? His resume includes a 219-yard performance against Georgia. Isabella also had 303 yards against Liberty, the most of any FBS or FCS receiver in a game on the season.He says he gained confidence he could play in the NFL after his first start against Florida as a sophomore. “In my head, you would have thought I was crazy but I always thought I was going to make it,” Isabella said. “I never really doubted myself.”— Adderley. He has drawn NFL buzz leading up to Senior Bowl week for his own play. His pedigree is impressive, too. His grandfather’s cousin, Herb Adderley, played for Vince Lombardi with the Green Bay Packers, and for the Dallas Cowboys, winning three Super Bowls. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980.“He’s just one of the greatest to ever do it,” Nasir Adderley said. “I’m very fortunate to have him in my circle.”— Howard. He didn’t get a scholarship offer coming out of high school, where he played quarterback and says he could throw the ball 70 yards. He walked on at Alabama State as a 225-pound tight end. Now, Howard is a 6-5, 322-pounder.Howard never played tight end at the Southwestern Athletic Conference school but did catch a pass on a trick play against Grambling State as a junior. Howard is already lobbying for more chances for himself and his fellow linemen.“You’ve got tackles who can catch the ball so why not use them?” he said. “Nobody’s looking for it.It’s his blocking that could land him an NFL job, though.Senior Bowl head Jim Nagy said none of the players were token small-school invites.“I think every (small college) guy we brought in is going to get drafted and play a long time,” Nagy said.