ALAMEDA — Derek Carr believes the fact that the Raiders haven’t jumped head-long into free agency says a lot about the franchise.

General manager Reggie McKenzie and coach Jack Del Rio haven’t signed a player while watching five of their own free agents leave for other teams.

“I think for so long, our fans were looking forward to free agency,” Carr said on the Raiders flagship station 95.7 The Game Friday. “They were champing at the bit all the way up until probably until this year. `Man, who can we add this time? Who’s the next piece? Can we get this guy?’

“Now, Reggie and our front office and coach Del Rio has done such a good job of adding talent through the draft and free agency up until this year that we have a solid team. We’re in a spot where the front office can take care of their own and those kinds of things.

“As exciting as free agency is, if you don’t have to be heavily involved I think it’s a good thing for the organization.”

One of those players who needs to be taken care of is Carr, who is entering the final year of his contract and in line for a big-money extension, the price of which goes up every time someone like Mike Glennon signs a three-year contract for $45 million with the Chicago Bears.

Carr said he’s not worried. McKenzie is on record as saying getting Carr and defensive end Khalil Mack locked up long-term is a priority.

“For my contract, it’s a business. I’m very thankful that my agent and Mr. McKenzie, Tom (Delaney), Dan (Ventrelle), Marc Badain, Mr. Davis, they all have such a good relationship. They can healthy conversations back and forth and figure things out.”

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Carr said he’s fine with recruiting free agents, but only with permission from the top. Teammate Bruce Irvin, who signed with the Raiders last year in free agency, isn’t shy about talking up the Raiders to prospective free agents through Twitter.

“I will definitely recruit, but once i get the green light from our front office,” Carr said. “I’m not going blindly go into something and have him all for it and then we don’t offer him something. I will and I have been a heavy recruiter, but I do it in my own way. Bruce does it his way, he’s Baby Reggie. I’m more in the shadows about it.”

Carr said he continues to make progress in his rehab from a broken ankle sustained in Week 16.