Former NFL punter Marquette King suspects a “noogie” may have contributed to the end of his tenure with the Raiders.

During a recent appearance on “The Oasklosvegas Podcast” with Graphk Raider, King — who was cut from the Raiders in 2018 and later found success in the XFL — recalled an interesting encounter with Las Vegas owner Mark Davis, all the while taking a shot at his infamous haircut.

“Besides the haircut, let’s see,” King said when asked if he had a Davis-centric story to share. “Oh, I do remember. This is probably why I got cut.

“We were in Sarasota and I was vibing out there. It was right after we played the Bills… We went out and came back [to the hotel] and I was kinda lit.

“Then I was sitting out on the back of the patio and I had these two cougars beside me. We were just chilling, talking for a bit. It kinda got interesting.”

That’s when King said he ran into Davis in the hotel lobby.

“I finished talking to them… and I go back to the [hotel] lobby, and I see Mark Davis and he’s like, ‘Hey Marquette, I see you!'” King recalled.

“I said, ‘My guy, what’s up?’ and I gave him a dap and put him in a headlock and went like this,” he continued while demonstrating the noogie with his fist.

King then explained that Davis “used to tell me about how he would get treated back in the day and I was trying to show him a nicer version of that.”

“Because he was telling me he would get taped up to the field-goal post and they’d leave him out there the entire time, and I was like, ‘Bro, I would never do that to you,'” he said.

King reposted the clip of him talking about Davis and wrote on X, “I had too!” with a crying-laughing emoji.

This wasn’t the first time King brought up his breakup with the Raiders.

The former NFL player, 34, previously explained that things went downhill for him once Jon Gruden was re-hired as the Raiders’ head coach in January 2018. 

During an appearance this week on 95.7 The Game, King claimed he was told that Gruden — who previously coached the Raiders from 1998 to 2001 — wanted him off the roster, despite never meeting the coach.

“As soon as I showed up, [then-Raiders general manager] Reggie [McKenzie] was telling me that Gruden doesn’t want me there,” King said. “We’re about to let you go, we’re gonna put you on the wire, and it’s gonna hit the news soon.”

King felt “scarred” by the situation, which he believed was personal.

“I honestly should’ve took a year off,” he said. “I was just so scarred from that, man. Feeling like somebody just has a motive behind just letting you go.

“I honestly don’t understand. I think it was hate. That’s what I feel like. That’s the only way you can be like that towards somebody if you never met them. I don’t know, some people just got hate in their heart.”

King was released from the team in March 2018 and had three years remaining on his contract.

A report from The Athletic in April of that year alleged “there were whispers of King’s personality not clicking with Gruden’s.”

Gruden resigned from the Raiders in October 2021 after an explosive New York Times report revealed he had used homophobic and misogynistic language in emails over a seven-year period ending in 2018.

King signed with the Raiders after going undrafted in 2012 and produced a career-best 42.7 net yards per punt in 2017 prior to his release.

He spent four games with the Denver Broncos in 2018 and averaged a career-worst 39.7 net yards per punt.

King currently plays for the XFL’s Arlington Renegades.