Controversial ex-Raiders coach Jon Gruden resurfaces at NFL camp

Despite the fact that he’s suing the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell, former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden just can’t stay away from an NFL sideline.

The 60-year-old Gruden was recently seen at Kansas City Chiefs practice chumming it up with head coach Andy Reid. It’s not known if Gruden will have any sort of role with the team going forward or if his appearance was just a one-off.

Chiefs training camp is the second one Gruden has attended in as many years. He made an appearance at New Orleans Saints camp last season to help quarterback Derek Carr, who he coached on the Raiders, with the team’s offensive install. Gruden made another appearance at Saints practice not long after that.

Gruden is considered by some around the league to be persona non grata given his pending lawsuit against the NFL. In it, he claims that his “future employment prospects and endorsement opportunities” were negatively affected by a series of leaked emails through the New York Times in which Gruden used misogynistic, racist and anti-LGBTQ language between 2011-18 when he worked as an analyst for ESPN.

Gruden is petitioning the Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider a decision made by a three-person panel to throw out his lawsuit and have it move forward in NFL-mandated arbitration overseen by Goodell.