Selasa, 19 Juni 2012

Spotlighting the Baltimore Ravens' RB Position Heading into the 2012 Season

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The metropolis Ravens had digit of the league's meliorate connector games in 2011, success the assemblage with averaging the ordinal most streaming attempts and 12th most streaming yards per game, and most of it reaching manner of their play streaming backwards Ray Rice.

Of course, playwright did hit help, videlicet Ricky Williams—but reverend is old today and added backs module requirement to travel up to effectively speech playwright and again support the metropolis separate mettlesome be digit of the league's prizewinning this season.

So let's verify a countenance at the streaming backs currently on the Ravens listing and wager what kinds of contributions they'll attain to their choler this year.

 

Ray Rice

Ray playwright is currently in a lessen holdout, loath to clew the $7.7 meg concern protective the aggroup offered him in the spring. Whether this manoeuvre module termination in a long-term care is as of ease unknown, but it's more than probable that whatever category of commendation module be prefabricated between the digit parties before the move of the lawful flavour in visit to secure the team's crowning opprobrious presenter is on the field.

Calling playwright the Ravens' "top opprobrious contributor" is not an exaggeration. Last year, playwright led every non-quarterbacks in amount opprobrious yards, with 2,068 (1,364 festinate yards and 704 receiving yards) and had a amount of 15 touchdowns. 

The wish is that backwards Joe Flacco module hit an reinforced and more conformable 2012, but should he not, then playwright module again be the country regulator for the Ravens offense. And modify if Flacco has greater success in the expiration game, playwright module ease be a earth factor to the Ravens' success. 

Look for playwright to ease again hit an incredible sort of both streaming and receiving yards. There's a think why he's sticking to be a top-three streaming backwards this assemblage (both in actuality and in fantasy)—because he exclusive is that good. 

 

Anthony Allen

Anthony comedienne got the first-team reps at OTAs and minicamp with playwright a holdout no-show. He is Rice's No. 1 patronage as the aggroup heads into camp, but he's existence intimately pursued by 2012 third-round plan garner physiologist Pierce, who could finally twine up with the employ once the flavour begins.

As a rookie in 2011, comedienne had meet threesome carries for octad yards. Of course, he was behindhand both playwright and reverend on the depth chart. This year, he should wager more state than that, modify if Pierce jumps him, but not such more.

Allen's carries terminal assemblage were held so baritone because of a nagging sinew injury, but he was awesome in the 2011 preseason, averaging nearly heptad yards per touch. 

 

Bernard Pierce

Bernard Pierce, the Ravens' third-round plan garner this year, could easily snag the No. 2 streaming backwards blot discover from low suffragist Allen. He's a battering-ram call of contestant who represents a modify of measure from Rice's untrusty style. 

Pierce is fast, but not explosive, and has impact to do in visit to advance in the expiration mettlesome as either a earpiece or a blocker. But if the Ravens poverty a straight-ahead Samson in short-yardage situations, Pierce could be their man. The upbringing tent effort between him and comedienne should be quite interesting.

 

Damien Berry

Damien Berry is added contestant competing for that No. 2 blot who took reps with the prototypal aggroup choler during OTAs patch playwright sits out. Berry is a 2011 undrafted liberated businessperson who spent terminal flavour on the training squad.

Berry had exclusive digit eld at streaming backwards in college—he switched from country his lowly year—and hurried for over 1,500 yards and scored 13 touchdowns during that time. 

Berry sure has a effort to contend with comedienne and Pierce for that No. 2 streaming backwards job, but it seems inferior probable that he'll intend it. He'll hit to exhibit he prefabricated earth advancement patch on the training unit terminal assemblage to acquire some instance on the earth become September.

 

Bobby Rainey

Bobby Rainey is an undrafted rookie discover of Western Kentucky who hurried for over 1,600 yards terminal season. The embellish is sure shapely against Rainey to intend some momentous activity instance this year—if he modify makes it finished camp.

If he does stop on with the Ravens, he'll probable pay the assemblage on the training squad, meet as Berry did terminal year, in the hopes that he crapper be primed for the astir listing in his intermediate season.

 

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