ALAMEDA, Calif. – It certainly seems like Maurice Jones-Drew is out of the Oakland Raiders’ plan at running back.

Jones-Drew, the Week 1 starter, who missed two games with a hand injury, hasn’t gotten much work. He had three carries for 6 yards last week against Arizona, and he has clearly fallen way behind Darren McFadden in the pecking order. He has 48 yards on 18 carries this season.

Still, Oakland interim coach Tony Sparano, a run-game specialist, says he hopes to get Jones-Drew more involved.

“We need to get Maurice more snaps,” Sparano said. “I think the plan is to try to get him involved a little bit more if we can do that now. One of the things we have to do is in order to get people more snaps, we have to play more snaps. In the ballgame the other day, really the ball was snapped 49 times and one of them was a kneel-down at the end of the half. So the ball was snapped 49 times, you’re not getting an awful lot of plays out there and that hurts you a little bit. But we need to get him involved more and try to do that, and that takes a little bit off of Darren in some of those situations. It keeps both of those guys fresher. We need to be able to do that.”

The team has not gotten Latavius Murray involved, even though it has hoped to. He has 7 yards on four carries this season. Overall, Oakland, which has had one good ground game this season, hopes to get the running game established Sunday at Cleveland. The Browns have the worst run defense in the NFL.

“You certainly would hope so,” Oakland offensive coordinator Greg Olson said when asked if Oakland looks at this game as a chance to get productive in the run game. “Obviously, you look at those things every time you go in a game as you study your opponents and are looking for an edge or an advantage. That’s one that we look at.”