Raiders pass-rusher Maxx Crosby is coming of the very best season of his five-year NFL profession during which he registered a career-high 90 tackles and 14.5 sacks whereas additionally forcing two fumbles.
Nevertheless, Crosby revealed after the season that he wasn’t even at full power. The 26-year-old had surgical procedures on his knee and thumb in January.
“It has been a hell of an offseason,” Crosby stated, through Paul Gutierrez of ESPN. “So, it has been a hell of a journey again.”
That is precisely why Crosby believes the 2024 season will be his finest but.
“I used to be rattling close to restricted each single day, the entire season in follow, and issues like that,” Crosby added. “My one aim is to be the very best on the planet, pound for pound, and I speak about it, I am about it, I reside it each single day and no matter road I’ve received to journey to get to the place I wish to go, I am going to do this. So I am exhausting each single useful resource I presumably should have the very best season of my profession.”
Crosby did not miss any time resulting from his accidents final season, enjoying in each sport for the fifth straight 12 months. If he put up the numbers he did whereas not totally wholesome, there isn’t any saying what he can do wholesome in 2024.
A part of why the three-time Professional Bowl has been so sturdy to start out his NFL profession is due to his private offseason program, which consists of not taking any days off.
“You speak about battle camps [lasting] possibly three months, 4 months; I do it 365 [days],” Crosby said. “In order that’s why I really feel like, on the finish of the day, my consistency is what separates myself and it’ll solely hold getting me higher as a result of I do not depart any stone unturned.”
Whereas Crosby is price each penny of his $6 million increase, Las Vegas hasn’t had a ton of success as of late. Since 2019, the workforce has gone 39-44 with one playoff look.
Nevertheless, there may be motive why Crosby is one in every of simply two Raiders nonetheless on the roster who performed with the workforce in Oakland (left sort out Kolton Miller). It is as a result of he is a distinction maker, and this season must be no totally different.
