Former Raiders voice Greg Papa watched Donald Penn’s performance on Friday night and believes the Raiders have a serious problem on their hands.

“You need to go get somebody else, otherwise Derek is going to get hurt,” Papa said Monday on his 95.7 The Game program. “I think this is really unfair what they’re asking Donald Penn to do. It’s unfair. I don’t think he’s healthy. He just got cleared off the PUP list… the play where he got walked back to the quarterback, that was really hard to watch.”

“Right now he has no power, he has no foot speed. I don’t know how you do it.”

Papa also said he isn’t sure a move back to left tackle would solve Penn’s issues, but believes the move to right tackle is only making his recovery even more difficult.

Penn said today that he believes he’ll be ready for the season opener in two weeks, but it’s a little unrealistic to expect an injury to improve dramatically in two weeks considering it has already had more than 30 weeks to heal. If anything, maybe Penn can gain confidence in his foot over the next couple weeks and maybe get a little better range of motion.

If for any reason Penn isn’t able to play week one (or isn’t effective), the Raiders have a big problem on their hands because they don’t have great backups, which is true of most NFL teams. But what that means is there’s no guarantee a decent replacement will be hitting free agency anytime soon, either.

One thing that is for sure, though, is Penn made himself a lot of money by holding out last year. No way he would have gotten much more than the veteran minimum in the condition he’s in right now.

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