The Las Vegas Raiders have struggled to run the ball early this season for a variety of reasons.

Entering Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns, the Raiders had the fewest yards per carry revenge of any team in the National Football League. Their inability to run the football has caused problems for the offense and the team.

However, with Sunday’s win over the Browns, the Raiders offense finally found a way to get the rushing attack going. Until Sunday, the Raiders had multiple rushes that barely showed up on the stat sheet or impacted the game. Sunday’s home win over the Browns not only saw the Raiders rush for more yards than they have all season, but they also had their two longest rushes of the season.

“Yes, there’s a lot of pride in that group, and we talked about how this wasn’t the beginning of us running the football the first three games, but giving credit to these guys,” Pierce said. “Let’s find the runs that work, and let’s keep working on them.

“And at the moment of play there is a run of 1-2 meters and what was it, 24 meters, 17 meters, 18 meters, 12 and a 10. That has not been shown. I think our longest run might have been 9, without penalties. But great work from those guys. I thought Zamir backed off and almost got one. Alex Mattison actually showed up today. These guys ran fast. As the game went on, I thought they were a more physical team.”

Raiders starting quarterback Gardner Minshew II also appreciated the hard work the running backs put in. The Raiders rushed for a season-high 152 yards against the Browns. Minshew said the running backs played well and credited the unit for playing winning football.

“Yeah, it was huge, man,” Minshew said. “Hats off to their line. They locked it up. They’ve been challenged the last few weeks, and they turned it on today and played a great game. And our backs, Z and Alex, ran hard, got some big plays, big first downs, and when you can do that, and the play-action stuff starts to work, everything becomes easier.

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