PRO FOOTBALL REPORT / WEEKDAY UPDATE : RAIDERS : Dyal Placed on the Practice Squad

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

Jan. 4, 1991 12 AM PT

The Raiders activated tight end Mike Dyal from injured reserve and placed him on their practice squad. To make room, tackle-defensive lineman Tim Rother was moved to injured reserve.

Dyal spent much of the season on injured reserve with a pulled hamstring. The Raiders will test Dyal in practice before making a decision on whether to activate him for their Jan. 13 playoff game.

The Raiders practiced 1 1/2 hours in the rain. “We got some things accomplished, besides getting wet,” Coach Art Shell said.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

PRO FOOTBALL REPORT / WEEKDAY UPDATE : RAIDERS : Dyal Placed on the Practice Squad

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