Culpepper passes physical test in game
Oakland Raiders08/20/2007 8:46 AM The Mercury News reports Raiders HC Lane Kiffin knew the play was coming. He didn't know when, just that it would come at some point in a regular-season game. When it did, Kiffin wanted to make sure that QB Daunte Culpepper's surgically repaired right knee would hold up. So it was that Kiffin put Culpepper in just such a situation during a workout July 31 in which Culpepper was asked to make a sharp cut in the open field and change direction as if he were eluding a defender. Culpepper passed the test, received a one-year contract and set out to show people that he is closer to the player who stood out during a seven-year run with the Minnesota Vikings than he was the player who struggled during a failed four-game stint with the Miami Dolphins last season. Read more