Red Raiders In The NFL - Week 1 Update

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LUBBOCK, Texas – As week 1 of the NFL season came to a close, 10 former Red Raiders saw action as members of active NFL rosters.

Each week, texastech.com will provide updates on the accomplishments of Red Raiders in the NFL.

Jace Amaro – Tennessee Titans

Week 1 Matchup: Minnesota 25, Tennessee 16
Coming off a 2015 season lost to injury, Jace Amaro has landed with the Tennessee Titans for the 2016 campaign ... Tennessee lost its week one matchup to Minnesota, 25-16 ... Amaro will look to build off an impressive 2014 rookie campaign, in which he hauled in 38 passes for 345 yards while hitting paydirt twice ... Amaro was the New York Jets' second-round pick (49th overall) in the 2014 NFL Draft.

Danny Amendola – New England Patriots

Week 1 Matchup: New England 23, Arizona 21
Amendola hauled in three catches for 48 yards in New England's primetime win, the largest of which being a 33-yard conversion on 3rd and 15 to set up the Patriots for the game-winning field goal (3:40 mark of the video below) … In seven NFL seasons, Amendola has caught 345 passes for 3,255 yards and scored 13 touchdowns … On top of that, he has hauled in three career postseason touchdowns, including a score in Super Bowl XLIX … Amendola was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2008.

Watch it again -- all the highlights from #NEvsAZ: https://t.co/FQz407F5xA pic.twitter.com/VTo3sFqTwi
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) September 12, 2016

Le'Raven Clark – Indianapolis Colts

Week 1 Matchup: Detroit 39, Indianapolis 35
In Indianapolis' week one defeat against Detroit, Clark saw the field for five special teams snaps … Clark was the first of three Red Raiders to hear their names called in the 2016 NFL draft, going at No. 82 overall … Clark started all 51 games of his Red Raider career, and his senior year he was named a CBS Sports second team All-American ... He was the third-round pick of the Colts in the 2016 NFL Draft.

Michael Crabtree – Oakland Raiders

Week 1 Matchup: Oakland 35, New Orleans 34
Crabtree started his eighth NFL season with a bang on Sunday, hauling in seven receptions for 87 yards, not including an incredible snag on what proved to be the decisive 2-point conversion with less than a minute left … He now has 439 receptions for 5,336 yards and 35 touchdowns in his professional career … Crabtree played two seasons at Texas Tech (2007-08), where he became the first receiver in collegiate history to win the Biletnikoff Award twice, before the 49ers selected him with the 10th overall pick of the 2009 NFL Draft.

.@Raiders score a TD.
Go for 2... and the LEAD.@DerekCarrQB + @KingCrab15. GOT IT! #RaiderNation #OAKvsNO https://t.co/nXiCHPoEEH
— NFL (@NFL) September 11, 2016

Cody Davis – Los Angeles Rams

Week 1 Matchup: San Francisco 28, Los Angeles 0
Davis saw 32 snaps (five defensive, 27 on special teams) in the Rams' week one defeat … This summer, Davis and Red Raider teammate Bradley Marquez were featured on the popular HBO "Hard Knocks" series … Davis was a four-year letterman with the Red Raiders (2009-12) and then signed as an undrafted free agent with the Rams in 2013.

Jakeem Grant – Miami Dolphins

Week 1 Matchup: Seattle 12, Miami 10
Grant totaled 83 all-purpose yards in his NFL debut on Sunday, averaging 33 yards per kick return in Miami's narrow defeat in Seattle … Grant was Miami's sixth-round pick in the 2016 NFL Draft after a senior year at Tech in which he averaged 181 all-purpose yards per game which ranked fourth nationally, and ranked fourth nationally with 1,017 kickoff return yards and fifth with two kickoff return touchdowns … CBS Sports tabbed him as a second team All-American.

Kerry Hyder – Detroit Lions

Week 1 Matchup: Detroit 39, Indianapolis 35
After making an unbelievable late charge to join the 53-man roster, topped off with three sacks in Detroit's final preseason game, Hyder continued his roll into Detroit's week one 39-35 win over Indianapolis ... Hyder recorded two sacks—the first of his career—good enough to rank second in the NFL in the category ... Hyder joined the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2014 after a Red Raider career which included a litany of All-Big 12 honors in 2013 and 2014.

DL @KerryhyderJR on his two-sack first half: "It's nice, but there's still a lot of work to do." pic.twitter.com/0e9RXlkyXQ
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) September 12, 2016

Bradley Marquez – Los Angeles Rams

Week 1 Matchup: San Francisco 28, Los Angeles 0
Marquez saw 29 snaps (eight offensive, 21 on special teams) in the Rams' week one defeat … This summer, Marquez and Red Raider teammate Cody Davis were featured on the popular HBO "Hard Knocks" series ... Marquez played four seasons at Texas Tech (2010-14) before the Rams signed him as an undrafted free agent in the spring of 2015.

LaAdrian Waddle – New England Patriots

Week 1 Matchup: New England 23, Arizona 21
Waddle saw the field for five special teams snaps in Sunday night's win over Arizona … in 2015, after missing the first two games of the season recovering from off season knee surgery, Waddle came back strong for Detroit, earning a starting spot for the rest of the season … Waddle played four seasons at Tech (2009-12) before being signed by the Lions as an undrafted free agent.

DeAndre Washington – Oakland Raiders

Week 1 Matchup: Oakland 35, New Orleans 34
In his NFL debut, Washington got the ball on six of the eight snaps in which he was on the field, totaling 14 rushing yards and 10 receiving yards in Oakland's dramatic win over New Orleans … Washington was the first Red Raider running back to register back-to-back 1,000 yard seasons since former Doak Walker Award winner Byron Hanspard in 1995 and 1996 ... one of five players in school history to rush for over 1,000 yards twice in a career.

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