Punter · Las Vegas Raiders

AJ Cole

No. 6 · 8th season

Everyone around him is new. AJ Cole is still here.

Special teams don't usually get a rebuilding story. They get a line in the depth chart and a quiet Tuesday.

AJ Cole is a punter for the Las Vegas Raiders — and at 30, he is the last one standing from an earlier era of that unit. While new coordinator Joe DeCamillis has brought in a wave of new faces to reshape a special teams group that had been sliding, Cole has stayed put. The longest-tenured special teamer on the roster, watching a renovation happen around him.

That kind of continuity is its own quiet pressure. When everything changes and you're still there, you become the comparison point — the baseline everyone is measured against, and the person with the most to prove that the old way wasn't entirely broken.

What Cole does with that role, now that the room has been rearranged, is the question worth watching.

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