There was a lot to hope for from second-year wideout Breshad Perriman with the Baltimore Ravens. Saturday night those hopes have probably been dashed.
Perriman reportedly suffered a partially torn ACL in his left knee. Perriman missed all of last season after tearing the PCL in his right knee. This is the third knee injury in a little over a calendar year for Perriman. He has yet to play a down of football in the NFL.
#Ravens WR Breshad Perriman suffered a partially torn ACL earlier this week, sources say (as @AdamSchefter reported). Surgery this week.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) June 11, 2016
Perriman was a first-round pick by the Ravens in 2015 out of Central Florida. The 6-foot-3, 214-pound speedster caught 50 passes for 1,044 yards and a nine touchdowns his junior season for the Knights, averaging 20.9 yards per catch.
Perriman will be evaluated by Dr. James Andrews, an orthopedic surgeon on Monday. If he needs surgery, he’ll likely miss the entire season again. The injury apparently happened Friday. Perriman complained of swelling and soreness and was given an MRI. According to ABC News out of Baltimore, Perriman suffered the injury catching a fade pass on a non-contact play during practice.
Ravens WR Breshad Perriman hurt his knee catching the ball on a fade pattern in Thursday's OTA. Non-contact… https://t.co/imhtuZYPEr
— Jamison Hensley (@jamisonhensley) June 11, 2016
“I was just talking to Lardarius Webb about how good Breshad was looking and how we were looking forward to seeing him play this year,” Ravens cornerback Shareece Wright said in an interview with ESPN. “This was my first opportunity to actually see him in person since this is my first offseason with the Ravens. I just hope he recovers and the injury is not as bad when they look deeper.”
Perriman’s injury shows how important it was that the Ravens added Mike Wallace as a free agent this offseason. It also can’t be understated how important Steve Smith Sr.’s return to the team. The emergence of Kamar Aiken last season, who caught 75 passes for 944 yards and five touchdowns should mitigate this from being too much of a disaster.
Rookies Chris Moore out of Cincinnait and Keenan Reynolds out of Navy should get a shot to produce as well.
Former NFL referee Mike Carey fired as rules analyst for CBS
If you played the “Will Mike Carey be wrong on this call?” drinking game over the last two season, I hope you didn’t end up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning. If he turned you into an alcoholic, I doubt there’s any real legal action you could take.
Either way, the drinking game is over. The shot glasses are put away and you’ll have to find another excuse to get blitz drunk on Sundays. I’m sure you can think of one.
Carey was an NFL referee for 24 years and I have no memory of him being especially terrible at it. What he was horrible at was looking at close or controversial replays and making anywhere near the call the actual on-the-field official eventually made.
What will Jim Nantz and Phil Simms do now without Carey’s constant wrongness to offset the boredom of NFL replays. I feel for those guys. I really do.
CBS hasn’t announced a replacement yet, but the New York Daily News speculated that they could actually get a deal with the NFL’s Vice President of Officiated, Dean Blandino, which could really be interesting. If he’s “wrong” in the booth, it could be bad news for the referee on the field. Or embarrassing for Blandino. Either way, it all sounds like a party.
We won’t have Mike Carey to kick around any more. His consistent erroneous calls became such a joke that the head of CBS sports, Sean McManus, actually talked about it before Super Bowl 50.
“Mike has perhaps gone out on a limb more than he should in trying to guess or speculate what a call will be,” McManus said. “But all he is giving his is opinion of what he would call if he were on the field. And if it’s a different result, I think people get frustrated.”
The one good thing I could say about Carey is he was never a “company man” like Fox’s Mike Pereira. Pereira seems to go out of his way to defend every action and horrible calls NFL refs make, where Carey would just make the horrible calls himself in the booth.
