The Raiders signed veteran guard Richie Incognito on

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Tuesday and General Manager Mike Mayock fielded questions from reporters about the move later in the day.Incognito was out of the league last year after being released by the Bills in the wake of a brief retirement , but he remained in the headlines due to a pair of off-field incidents. He was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold in May after allegedly throwing a dumbbell at another person during an incident at a gym and he was arrested in August for threatening to shoot employees at the funeral home handling his father’s service.Those weren’t the first times that Incognito made waves for the wrong reasons off the football field and he was at the center of the investigation into bullying with the Dolphins in 2013. Mayock was asked about signing Incognito after making character a major talking point in regard to the players the Raiders drafted.“You can’t have all boy scouts,” Mayock said.Mayock said, via Scott Bair of NBCSportsBayArea.com, that Incognito has been fine whenever he’s been focused solely on on-field activities and called the deal a “prove-it” one that will force Incognito to prove himself on and off the field. He added that the team will help Incognito “help himself” in terms of staying out of trouble off the field and that the team doesn’t know if Incognito will face league discipline as a result of last year’s incidents. The running back position has been devalued in the NFL in recent years , but one running back appears poised to be snapped up no later than the end of the first round.Alabama running back Josh Jacobs has been mocked to draft slots in the 20s in most mock drafts, with the Raiders (who own picks 24 and 27) appearing to like him and the Eagles and Colts (25th and 26th) high on him as well.In his mock draft, Peter King projected the Raiders trading up to 21st to take Jacobs. Oakland may think it has to move up to 24 to keep some other team from leapfrogging it.The Raiders are reportedly poised to do something surprising, but taking Jacobs at No. 4 overall would be stunning , not just surprising.Still, for as much as the NFL has become a passing league and not a running league, teams continue to draft running backs. Last year Saquon Barkley went second overall, Rashaad Penny 27th and Sony Michel 31st. Jacobs surely won’t go as high as Barkley did last year , but he seems likely to be off the board as early as Penny was last year.

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