Raiders' Terrelle Pryor gets a series
Vic Tafur
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Terrelle Pryor will remember Sunday for a long time. Not because the Rose Bowl-winning quarterback at Ohio State got on the field for the first time this season. But because he was sick.
Pryor and starting quarterback Carson Palmer both had flu-like symptoms, and Pryor threw up for the first time in his life, he said. He felt so bad that he called an ambulance.
"It was a little scary, yeah," Pryor said.
Turned out he was OK, and sirens went off later in the day when the third-string quarterback came into the game for a series in the second quarter.
Some fans have been eagerly awaiting Pryor playing since the Raiders took him in the supplemental draft in August 2011. (He got in for one play last season that was nullified by penalty.)
During his action Sunday, there was a false-start penalty, Pryor handed off the ball twice and then fired an incomplete pass to Darrius Heyward-Bey when the Chiefs gave him a different coverage than he expected.
Just like that, Pryor was done for the day.
"It was a steppingstone," he said. "I enjoyed the four plays. I was excited to get out there. I only saw four plays. Not much to pick apart. I'll be ready in practice next week."
Will he play again this season? Raiders head coach Dennis Allen was asked if the coaches need to see Pryor more to evaluate him.
"We've got a little bit of an idea of what we have in him," Allen said. "I'd like to get him into games more often, but again, I'm letting game situations dictate who plays. ... This isn't just put everybody in and let them go. ...
"We want to see him work, just like we do all the young guys, but we're trying to win football games."
