Raiders Blog and Q&A: Hanging with Coop

I spent a couple of hours with Jarrod Cooper down at the Oakland Animal Shelter, where he spends a lot of his time.

I'll be writing more about that later, but here two things you'd be interested to know from today.

First, Coop's rehab is going great at the team facility. He tore is ACL in November is about nine weeks removed from surgery. He's able to run and is looking good and expects to be resigned and back with the team for workouts in late March.

He also is behind Lane Kiffin and the coaching staff. Any disgruntled players are in the minority, he said, because the change from year's past to last season was drastic, even if hasn't shown up in wins yet.

Just so you know, Cooper will be at the shelter (1101 29th Street in Oakland) on Feb. 9 helping give tours. Coop is a volunteer for what I learned today is an extremely good cause.

For more information on what's going on at the shelter click here.

--Jason Jones