PRO FOOTBALL DAILY REPORT : RAIDERS : Allen's Knee Not Full Strength Yet

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

Nov. 21, 1991 12 AM PT

Marcus Allen favored his right knee at times during last Sunday’s 31-7 victory over the Seattle Seahawks at the Coliseum, but Coach Art Shell doesn’t think the tailback aggravated the injury.

“You’d like to say take two months off and you’ll be all right,” Shell said. “But with what he has, he can play and make a contribution.”

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

PRO FOOTBALL DAILY REPORT : RAIDERS : Allen’s Knee Not Full Strength Yet

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