Alliance... » Antonio Brown didn’t join his new teammates for the start

Raiders coach Jon Gruden did not specify a reason for Brown’s absence. Gruden offered only that he hopes to see the receiver soon.“He’s not here today Gabe Jackson Jersey ,” Gruden said, via video from Jimmy Durkin of TheAthletic.com, “and hopefully we’ll see him here in the next couple of days. He’s been working extremely hard learning our offense and really excited to get him out here. But in the meantime, we have plenty of balls and plenty of receivers to throw to.”Brown is hardly the only big-name player in the NFL training on his own during voluntary sessions at team facilities this spring. Todd Gurley, Le'Veon Bell, Julio Jones, Josh Norman, Patrick Peterson, Yannick Ngakoue, Chris Jones, Odell Beckham Rodney Hudson Jersey , Jarvis Landry, Marcus Peters, Aqib Talib and Dante Fowler are among others who have skipped all or part of their team’s offseason work.The Steelers agreed to trade Brown to the Raiders on March 10. The Pro Bowl receiver contributed 11,207 receiving yards and 74 touchdowns in his nine seasons in Pittsburgh. Antonio Brown had many suitors. Or at least more than one.Seahawks coach Pete Carroll admitted during a Monday interview with 710 ESPN in Seattle that the Seahawks were among the franchises vying for the receiver’s services after he was released by the Raiders on Saturday.“We were involved with that one, yeah,” Carroll said.It’s no surprise, given that the Seahawks lost Doug Baldwin to retirement and, at least for the short term, promising youngster David Moore. Brown would give the Seahawks a level of talent at the position that they simply haven’t had under Carroll — and haven’t had at all since Joey Galloway.But it wasn’t to be. So if/when the Seahawks and Patriots end up in the Super Bowl again, Carroll and company will have to deal with a wideout far better than any of the wideouts Seattles had to defend when they met five years ago.