MINNEAPOLIS - Randy Moss has become known as much for his distracting antics as he has for his electrifying touchdown catches during his seven-year career.

Sounds like Al Davis' kind of player.

Dante DiTrapano, Moss' agent, told The Associated Press Wednesday that the Minnesota Vikings and Oakland Raiders had "come to an agreement on Randy playing for Oakland next year."

Davis, the longtime renegade owner of the Raiders, has always taken a certain pride in acquiring talented players with troubled backgrounds. And Moss is just the latest to join the Silver and Black.

DiTrapano said Moss was "very pleased to be going to Oakland and looking forward to playing with a team that's promised to throw the ball deep a whole lot to him and have a chance at winning the Super Bowl."

Neither the Vikings nor the Raiders would confirm the deal, which reportedly involves the Raiders sending linebacker Napoleon Harris, the seventh pick in this year's draft and another late-round pick to Minnesota for Moss.

Without commenting specifically on the trade, Raiders senior administrator Artie Gigantino said, "the Raiders have always been very aggressive in the pursuit of free agents. Randy Moss is certainly one of the great receivers of all time. Many players have ended their careers as Oakland Raiders."

The deal cannot become official until March 2, the start of the NFL's fiscal year.

"We have had discussions with the Oakland Raiders, but there's nothing to announce," Rob Brzezinski, Minnesota's vice president of football operations said.

Moss is due to make $7.25 million next year, while Harris is due to make $5.41 million.

Moss had said publicly that he wished to stay in Minnesota, but DiTrapano said his client had grown tired of falling short of the Super Bowl.

"He doesn't leave Minnesota with any grudges," DiTrapano said. "It just was frustrating for him to lose."

Moss brings considerable skills, and a lot of baggage, to the Bay Area.

He was fined $10,000 for pretending to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay crowd during Minnesota's playoff win. He also drew criticism for leaving the field with 2 seconds left in a regular-season loss against Washington.

Other transgressions included bumping a traffic control officer with his car in 2002, verbally abusing corporate sponsors on a team bus in 2001 and squirting an official with a water bottle in 1999.

But when he is healthy and focused on the field, look out.

He caught 13 touchdowns last season, despite missing some or most of five games with a hamstring injury. His 9,142 career receiving yards are the most by any player over his first seven seasons, and the Vikings' offense has been built around his ability to catch the deep ball.

He'll leave Minnesota as the only receiver in NFL history to start his career with six straight 1,000-yard seasons. Last year, he had 49 catches for 767 yards and 13 touchdowns.

But there were signs that his antics were wearing thin with teammates, coaches and officials.

After losing to Philadelphia in the playoffs, coach Mike Tice said the team will concentrate more on running the ball and needed more leaders to emerge in the locker room.

Center Matt Birk and quarterback Daunte Culpepper confronted Moss after he walked off at Washington.

"He's my good friend, but you almost get to thinking that maybe enough is enough," Culpepper said earlier this month at the Pro Bowl. "And maybe the Vikings organization has had enough."

It's an organization in flux. Red McCombs has agreed to sell the team to Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler, a deal that still needs to be approved by the NFL.

A spokeswoman for Fowler said it would be "inappropriate for Reggie to be commenting at this point" because McCombs still owns the team and is making all the decisions.

So Moss is headed to Oakland, where he will team with Jerry Porter, who signed a five-year, $20 million contract extension this week, to form a formidable receiving tandem.

The Vikings, who sorely need help at linebacker, will be getting a veteran in Harris who is coming off a career-low 61 tackles in nine starts last season because of a knee injury.

The No. 7 pick also could provide help to their lackluster defense or perhaps a replacement for Moss at receiver.