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    Ravens sign Donald Payne

    Getty Images The Ravens have brought back a former member of the team to bolster their linebacking corps. The team announced the signing of linebacker Donald Payne. The move comes a day after linebacker Chris Board suffered a concussion in the team’s preseason matchup against the Packers...
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    John Harbaugh says Tavon Young could be out for year with neck injury

    Getty Images The Baltimore Ravens may have lost one of their top defenders for all of the upcoming season. Head coach John Harbaugh said after Thursday night’s preseason game that cornerback Tavon Young has an injured neck that sideline him for the entire 2019 campaign. “Tavon has a more...
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    Ravens waive defensive tackle Elijah Qualls

    Getty Images Even with a game to be played Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers, the Baltimore Ravens elected to waive defensive tackle Elijah Qualls prior to the game. Qualls was signed by the Ravens last weekend to fill the roster spot vacated by the trade of guard Alex Lewis to the...
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    Lamar Jackson: Defense gave me opportunity to run, I took it

    Getty Images Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson‘s ability to make plays with his feet was on full display against the Packers on Thursday night. Jackson stuck to throwing the ball in the team’s preseason opener, but he ran the ball three times against Green Bay. The best of those runs didn’t...
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    Aaron Rodgers advises Lamar Jackson to slide

    Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson showed on Thursday night against the Packers that he’s not afraid to run, even in the preseason. But while fans cheer the way Jackson makes plays with his legs, older quarterbacks may cringe when they see a promising young quarterback expose himself to hits...
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    Aaron Rodgers sitting out tonight with back tightness

    Aaron Rodgers will miss tonight’s game against the Ravens with back tightness, Wes Hodkiewicz of the team website reports. Hodkiewiz called it a “precaution” and not a concern long term. The Packers quarterback did not play in last week’s preseason opener, but head coach Matt LaFleur had...
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    Lamar Jackson not afraid to run in preseason

    Getty Images No one doubts Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson‘s running ability. Some may question how much he should run in the preseason. After not running at all in the Ravens’ first preseason game, Jackson showed off his spectacular running ability in tonight’s second preseason game...
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    Ravens sign punter Sean Smith

    Getty Images The Baltimore Ravens have added another punter to their roster following the trade of Kaare Vedvik to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. The Ravens signed undrafted free agent rookie Sean Smith on Tuesday. Smith attended the team’s rookie mini-camp in May as a tryout player. Smith...
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    Aaron Rodgers, Packers starters will play “a quarter or so” on Thursday

    Getty Images The Packers travel to Baltimore for their second preseason game on Thursday night. And the folks who show up at M&T Bank Stadium will get to see quarterback Aaron Rodgers play. Via Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com, coach Matt LaFleur told reporters on Tuesday that Rodgers and the rest of...
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    Marquise Brown gets day off, still “recovering”

    Getty Images Ravens rookie wideout Marquise Brown got a late start to training camp, and apparently still needs some time to be all the way back. According to Jonas Shaffer of the Baltimore Sun, the first-rounder missed practice Monday, just two days after he rejoined team drills in training...
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    Report: Packers, Jets and Bears called about Kaare Vedvik before Vikings trade

    Getty Images Before the Vikings and Ravens completed a trade sending kicker Kaare Vedvik to Minnesota on Sunday, there was a report that four teams had reached out to Baltimore about trading for Vedvik. The report didn’t specify which teams had picked up the phone, but two of them seemed like...
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    Taking a look at the nuttiest off-field story lines

    Getty Images The still-unfolding Antonio Brown situation seems like one of the craziest off-field NFL situations to ever happen. But there have been others. On Monday’s PFT Live, Simms and I drafted the most memorable of the most nutty off-field predicaments. Bottom line: Brown has a long way...
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    Ravens trade Kaare Vedvik to Vikings

    Getty Images A Norwegian is heading to the Vikings. Kaare Vedvik, the Ravens kicker and punter who has lit up the last two preseasons but had no realistic chance of unseating Justin Tucker on Baltimore’s roster, has been traded to Minnesota, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. The Ravens will...
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    Report: Four teams have called Ravens about Kaare Vedvik trade

    Getty Images There was trade chatter around Ravens kicker Kaare Vedvik last summer before he suffered injuries in an assault that kept him off the field for the rest of the season. With Vedvik again kicking well and Justin Tucker still on hand in Baltimore, chatter is picking up about a...
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    Bears could be trade partners for Ravens kicker Kaare Vedvik

    Getty Images The Ravens have two good kickers in training camp. Some teams don’t have one. Which means Baltimore may be in the rare position to acquire a draft pick in a trade for an undrafted kicker who wasn’t going to make the roster anyway. That kicker is Kaare Vedvik, who looked very good...
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    Lions add quarterback Josh Johnson

    Getty Images He wasn’t interested in taking a job with the Ravens. He pounced on a chance to sign with the Lions. Quarterback Josh Johnson has accepted a roster spot, after winning a two-man tryout with Landry Jones. Johnson didn’t want to join the Ravens, ostensibly because it was a...
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    Ravens kicker/punter Kaare Vedvik continues to impress

    Getty Images Kaare Vedvik is good enough to make an NFL roster. But maybe not the roster Justin Tucker and Sam Koch are on. Vedvik, the Ravens’ Norwegian backup kicker and punter, had another solid preseason outing on Thursday night, went 4-for-4 on field goals in last night’s preseason...
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    Lamar Jackson: Thursday’s offense “not close” to what we’ll run in regular season

    Getty Images The revamping of the Ravens offense was a major storyline of the offseason and Thursday night’s preseason game against the Jaguars offered the first chance to see the unit in action. According to the guy running the offense on the field, that glimpse was not indicative of how...
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    President Trump would “love to see” Colin Kaepernick get a job in the NFL, “if he’s good enough”

    Getty Images Free-agent (for more than two years) quarterback Colin Kaepernick continues to be available. Many think he continues to be blackballed by a group of owners who are, among other things, fearful of the reaction President Trump. On Friday morning, during a lengthy open-air...
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    Nick Foles, Leonard Fournette, 16 other Jaguars won’t play tonight

    Getty Images Nick Foles won’t play tonight in the Jaguars’ preseason opener, the team announced. Foles, who signed with Jacksonville in the offseason, played 51 snaps in two preseason games last year for the Eagles. Running back Leonard Fournette and cornerback Jalen Ramsey also are among the...
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