Pete Banaszak, Raiders' Super Bowl XI back and Holy Roller figure, dies at 82

Pete Banaszak is dead at 82. The Raiders announced the death of their old short-yardage back on Saturday afternoon, and if you want a one-sentence summary of the franchise's best decade, he is close to it.

The line items: fifth-round pick in the 1966 AFL Draft out of Miami, 13 seasons in Oakland and not one anywhere else, 173 regular-season games, retired after 1978. In 1975 he scored 16 rushing touchdowns, which led the NFL and is still the Raiders' single-season record more than 50 years later. He has a Super Bowl XI ring, and he is in the middle of the Holy Roller, the 1978 fumble sequence in San Diego that the league later wrote a rule to outlaw. He was a Wisconsin native, proud of his Polish heritage, and went into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. The team did not give a cause of death. Pro Football Talk carried the announcement Saturday. He leaves his wife Sue, daughters Rebecca and Amy, and three grandsons.

The current team plays a few hours after you read this. Las Vegas is 3-3 on a three-game losing streak and hosts the 2-4 Rams at Allegiant Stadium at 4:25 p.m. Eastern on Fox.

The one late wrinkle is at linebacker. Quay Walker finished Friday as a full participant with no designation, then got downgraded to questionable with a chest issue, as ESPN's Ryan McFadden reported. Mike Washington Jr. is questionable with foot and back problems, and Dont'e Thornton Jr. and Carter Runyon stay out, per the final injury report.

Los Angeles arrives thinner. Davante Adams is on injured reserve with a ruptured hamstring and is expected to miss six to 10 weeks. Puka Nacua is questionable with a calf and will be a game-time call, with Sean McVay calling it "just a little minor thing in there" on the Rams' own injury report. Linebacker Nate Landman is out with a concussion and Eric Kendricks gets elevated. Matthew Stafford still leads the league in attempts, completions and passing yards.

Opinion: the Raiders score plenty, 27.0 points a game, sixth in the league, and the rest of the ledger is ugly. They run for 79.2 yards a game, 30th, and give up 371.7, 28th, per the team's own preview. A Rams team missing this much is a reasonable place to stop a slide, and the Raiders are still a 4 1/2-point home underdog. That is the market telling you what it thinks of the run game.

Watch the inactives list 90 minutes before kickoff for Nacua and Walker. The all-time series is tied 8-8.