The Las Vegas Raiders will kick off their 2023 regular season in 20 days, and running back Josh Jacobs hasn’t practiced once with the NFL team since the final game on the 2022 schedule.

Last season’s NFL rushing leader and the Raiders haven’t been able to get together on a contract, and while Las Vegas kept Jacobs out of free agency, it hasn’t gotten him into the team facility to prepare for the coming campaign.

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And the time to do that to have Jacobs on the field on Sept. 10 against the Denver Broncos is running out, Raiders coach Josh McDaniels said on Sunday.

“It’s the National Football League,” McDaniels said, “so it’s not easy to go out there and just play games and do it at the speed and level that you want to do it at unless you’ve really kind of had enough opportunity to get yourself ready to do that. We’ve talked all year to our team about nothing carries over from one year to the next. You have to re-establish your individual level of performance, and collectively as a unit and ultimately as a team we have to establish and re-establish ourselves in terms of what we’re going to be about.

“Whether it would be J.J. or somebody else, it’s the same thing. Everybody’s got to have an opportunity to do that – get re-acclimated to the pace, the speed of things. But again, I have no new information on the whole situation.”

On Monday, Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote Jacobs “is expected to report to the Raiders” before the season-opening game, citing unnamed sources.

If Jacobs doesn’t report in time to get on the 53-player regular-season roster for the first game, then his holdout would start affecting his financial bottom line for the 2023 campaign.

The contract impasse began when Las Vegas used its franchise tag to prevent Jacobs from becoming a free agent in March. The franchise tag guaranteed the former Alabama standout a $10.091 million payday for the 2023 season and gave the team and player until July 17 to work out a multi-year deal.

They failed to do so, and Jacobs has not signed the franchise-tag tender.

The Raiders can sign him to a more lucrative contract, but the rules prohibit the team from offering anything other than a one-year deal.

Jacobs could sign the franchise-tag offer and report for practice at any time. Las Vegas also could withdraw the offer, which would turn Jacobs into an unrestricted free agent.

In the meantime, the Raiders have been preparing Zamir White to be their No. 1 running back. As a rookie from Georgia, White ran for 70 yards on 17 carries in 2022, when Jacobs ran for 1,653 yards and 12 touchdowns on 340 carries.

“The more he plays, the better he does,” McDaniels said of White.

Las Vegas concludes its preseason schedule by visiting the Dallas Cowboys at 7 p.m. CDT Saturday.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.