ALAMEDA, Calif. – A few eyebrows were raised when Michael Crabtree compared Derek Carr to Brett Favre last week.

Even if it was just as a gunslinger.

The Oakland Raiders third-year quarterback, though, took it as a compliment.

“Very honored, very thankful,” Carr said Wednesday, following the second practice of minicamp. “Brett is somebody I looked up to as a kid, the way he played the game. So I wore No. 4 ever since I can remember. I always wanted to wear 4, somehow, some way.

“For [Crabtree] to come out and say that, it made me think, Well, do I take too many chances?”

Carr laughed.

“But I think the wide receivers like that,” Carr added. “They know that no matter what, I’m going to give them a chance. It doesn’t matter if you drop a ball. It doesn’t matter if I just sailed one eight rows deep. I’m going to throw the next one just as confident and give you just as much of a chance.

“And if that’s what he sees, I’m very thankful and honored, but I have a long way to go until I’m compared to Brett.”

Receiver Amari Cooper said there was a certain “comfort” growing between himself and Carr, saying, “With every route that I run, I know where Derek wants to throw the ball; I know how he wants to throw it.” However, Crabtree was effusive in his previous praise.

“A gunslinger? He’s always going to be a gunslinger, and I love that,” Crabtree said of Carr.

“An old, Brett Favre-type quarterback. He reminds me of Brett Favre [and] Brett Favre’s one of the greatest players to ever play this game.”