Las Vegas Raiders star pass rusher Maxx Crosby’s season is over.

The Raiders placed Crosby on injured reserve for the “remainder of the 2025 season” due to a lingering knee injury, the team announced Saturday. That means he will miss the team’s final two games of the season, starting with Sunday’s home game against the New York Giants.

“After deliberate and thorough consultation with multiple top medical professionals, it became clear that this decision is in the best interest of both the franchise and the player,” the Raiders’ announcement on social media read. “Maxx is the ultimate warrior, and he has fought extremely hard to compete each week with his teammates since injuring his knee mid-season.”

Raiders head coach Pete Carroll told reporters Friday that he informed Crosby he would not play in Sunday’s game due to his knee injury, despite pushback from the seventh-year veteran. Carroll said Crosby immediately left the facility upon receiving the news. Asked if he was angry when he left, Carroll said Crosby’s reaction was “exactly like you would think he would do, and he should do” given the competitor that he is.

“I agree with him 1,000 percent on how he responded, and I (would have) responded the same way, and I get it,” Carroll said. “We thought our way through it and hopefully came to the right conclusion for his long-(term) betterment.”

Crosby’s absence comes ahead of what will be a pivotal Week 17 game against the Giants, a matchup between the teams tied for the worst record (2-13) in the NFL, with the loser getting the inside track to securing the No. 1 selection in the 2026 NFL Draft. The Raiders had already ruled out star tight end Brock Bowers for the season, as well as starting safety Jeremy Chinn, before Carroll informed Crosby of the news Friday.

“He didn’t want to take the news like that, and I didn’t want to take the news like that,” Carroll told reporters. “… If we let him, he would have been out there, and he would not have hesitated, but he knows that he’s banged up. So he’s talking about, ‘I’d like to get out of here.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, get out of here.’ So, he took off.”

Crosby has been on the Raiders’ injury report with a knee injury since Week 12, following a 33-16 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on “Monday Night Football,” but he had not missed a game this season.

“He’s been fighting this thing for nine weeks, whenever (the) Kansas City (game) was,” Carroll said. “Each week, he has done everything you could possibly imagine a guy could do to play, and he’s been able to. And they have worked with him to get through it. But after an evaluation we did Monday or Tuesday, whenever it was, it just looks too bad.”

For the first two weeks of dealing with his knee injury, Crosby was listed as either a limited participant or a full participant in practice. However, since Week 14, Crosby has been listed as a non-participant in at least one practice each week.