![]() “Woodson has had two, what really should have been, game-saving interceptions. “We’re still hanging in there,” Manning said. He has the Broncos at the top of the AFC West once again and is growing more comfortable by the week in coach Gary Kubiak’s offense. Like Woodson, Manning is not quite the same player he was in his prime but he is still quite successful. It’s pretty impressive to see what he’s done.” “I thought I could still do it, but he’s doing it. “When I was 39, I was the head coach at that time, my first year,” Raiders coach Jack Del Rio said. have intercepted passes at an older age than Woodson. The Raiders ended up losing that game when the Bears kicked a late field goal. He has two interceptions, sealing a Week 3 win in Cleveland with one and setting up a late, go-ahead score last week in Chicago with the 62nd of his career. Despite the injury late in Week 1, Woodson has played 96 percent of the defensive snaps, second on the team to Malcolm Smith. Woodson is more than just an inspirational leader for the Raiders. ![]() It makes you want to step up and play hard.” ![]() “I’m 26 and I feel like I can’t complain about certain things because he’s doing it and he’s been doing it for a while and he does it at a high level. “It’s definitely something we all look at,” teammate Aldon Smith said. But only Woodson is doing it at a position where he has to dole out hits and run all around the field. The only other player remaining from that draft class is quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who also started last week. Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning also entered the NFL in the 1998 draft class - picked first, three spots ahead of Woodson - and is still playing at a high level. Woodson will have some company in the old-man brigade on Sunday when the Raiders (2-2) host Denver (4-0). I think about it more and more because I hear about it all the time but it’s pretty crazy to be here at 18 years.” “To be at 18, man, it’s amazing even to me. “I never looked that far into the future to say I’d play past 10 years,” Woodson said Wednesday on his 39th birthday. ![]() Yet here he still is in his 18th season, ignoring a banged-up shoulder that limits his practice time and his tackling ability and still grinding away for the Oakland Raiders with the energy of a much younger player. ALAMEDA - When Charles Woodson entered the NFL nearly two decades ago, the idea that he’d still be playing at age 39 never crossed his mind. ![]()
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