Post-practice notes from the locker room

Right guard Bobbie Williams, who had his appendix removed and missed three games, said he was ready to play Sunday against the Raiders. Williams participated in the one-hour walkthrough practice this afternoon.

Wide receiver Kelley Washington (hamstring), cornerback Deltha O'Neal (shoulder) and linebacker Brian Simmons (neck) also participated.

Wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh, defensive linemen Bryan Robinson and Sam Adams, center Eric Ghiaciuc (right knee sprain) and offensive linemen Rich Braham (knee) and Levi Jones (knee) also did not participate.

Ghiaciuc, injured during the Baltimore game Thursday night, was off crutches said he was doing better.

Ghiaciuc said his former college coach at Central Michigan, Brian Kelly, would be a perfect fit for the University of Cincinnati. He said Kelly is strict, demanding and knows what he wants.

Wide receiver Tab Perry, who injured his hip at the end of the first Cleveland game in Week 2 and was lost for the season, visited today and said he was rehabbing well. He said reports that his hip injury is worse than the one suffered by Bo Jackson are not true. Perry said his hip could have become like Jackson's but did not. Perry said he has been off crutches for two months.

Perry was basking in the victory by his alma mater, UCLA, over rival USC on Saturday. In fact, Perry had Carson Palmer, the former USC star, sign the Trojans cap Palmer had given Perry last year.

"UCLA sucks," Palmer wrote on the bill of the cap.

"We got the victory, that's all that matters," Perry said.

There is no official injury report today.

Wide receiver Reggie McNeal, arrested early Sunday morning in Houston for resisting arrest, was not at the workout or in the locker room.