Like the wine cultivated in the vineyards surrounding the Oakland Raiders Napa Valley Training Complex, Derek Carr is getting better with age.
Now in his fourth NFL season – and still just 26 years old – Carr has improved statistically across the board in each of his first three seasons, vaulting himself from the quarterback of an 0-10 football team, to a legitimate MVP candidate in 2016.
In the few, short years since he wrapped up his college career at Fresno State, cheap authentic jerseys Carr has quickly established himself as one of the premier, young quarterbacks in the NFL; the long-term extension he signed with the organization in June is proof of just that.
However, just a few days out from the Raiders preseason opener – a game that if Carr plays will serve as his first game action since breaking his fibula on December 24 – the Raiders signal-caller has no interest in resting on his laurels.
“It’s a constant work in progress,” said Carr following Wednesday’s practice. “There will never be a time that I stand up here, and say, ‘hey, man I’m perfect.’ Now, I’m going to try my best, and he’s [Offensive Coordinator Todd Downing] going to grade me really hard to make sure I don’t get there, but with my decisions, my accuracy, my completions, I just always want to make sure that number is going up, and make sure that it gets to a point where we’re completing 90 percent of our passes throughout a whole training camp.”