Raiders Sign Bengal Max Montoya : Football: The All-Pro offensive lineman is acquired as a Plan B free agent.

Free-agent offensive lineman Max Montoya, a veteran of 11 seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals who made the Pro Bowl the last two years, has signed with the Raiders, a team spokesman said today in Los Angeles.

Montoya, 33, a native of the Los Angeles area who starred at UCLA, had signed a two-year contract with the Bengals last August that would have paid him a reported $475,000 in 1990. But Montoya, a Plan B free agent, was free to negotiate with other teams because the Bengals chose not to protect him on their off-season roster, hoping that he would remain in Cincinnati where he owns two restaurants.

A source told The Times earlier that Montoya and the Raiders had agreed on a contract that will pay him $650,00 a season.

Montoya played in two Super Bowls for the Bengals, both losses to San Francisco, after the 1981 and 1988 seasons. He spent his entire NFL career with the Bengals, who drafted him in the seventh round in 1979.

“He was a fine player for the Cincinnati Bengals and we appreciate what he did here,” Mike Brown, Bengals assistant general manager, said in Cincinnati. “We hoped he would have played out his career here, but he had a choice not to and decided he wouldn’t. We wish him well.”

“I understand the reason for Max making this decision,” Bengals Coach Sam Wyche said.

“We understood the calculated risk in exposing Max.”

Reserve linemen Brian Blados and Paul Jetton could be candidates for the vacancy created by Montoya’s departure.