Samari Rolle likely to miss this season
Samari Rolle has been on the physically-unable-to-perform list with a neck injury since the preseason, and the Ravens are not expecting the veteran cornerback to be activated this season.
Coach John Harbaugh said as much during his weekly media briefing today.
"I can’t speak for Samari in that sense, but I would say right now based on what the medical people are saying, I’m not very optimistic at all that he’ll be able to play this year," Harbaugh said. "He had the surgery, and you just don’t want to mess around with the neck. Samari’s too important to us as a person to even think about that. That’s not the advice we’re getting medically. So that’s probably where that stands."
Rolle, who hasn't played since the AFC Divisional playoff win against the Tennessee Titans on Jan. 10, underwent surgery in the offseason to repair a bulging disc in his neck. He had another procedure on the neck several weeks ago.
Harbaugh was on the opposite end of the spectrum regarding offensive tackle Jared Gaither, who has missed the last two contests with a neck injury suffered against the New England Patriots on Oct. 4.
"He was close," he said. "We'll see. You can't speak to a neck, so I don't want to sit here and say he's going to definitely play against Denver [on Nov. 1]. But we would expect him to play against Denver."
Comments
Slow news day? How's this any news? Go find something about T.O or Ozzie to write about.
Posted by: Purple Koolaid | October 19, 2009 4:54 PM
there is a really big surprise. that was the worst kept secret since Chris Matthews has a man crush on the President. My only question is this - If Samari knew that his surgery did not work and knew it was likely that he was finished was he just hoping against hope that he could play again, or was he stealing money for doing nothing.
Posted by: ed from park heights | October 19, 2009 6:16 PM
Since it was so obversative that the there was a problem with the DEFENSE CORNERS AND THE HEIGht DIFFERENCE AND THE CHALLANGE RESULTS. i DO BELIEVE THAT ANY NEGATIVE COMMMENTARTY form the "fish wrap" woul;d force a NEGATIVE impact on the organization. However how could this b defferent than the giv e 20 year stand=adrAGAINEST THE "museam build attire of 1994' of the paul t and assocatie difiniation to the populstion of the NFL. "JACKSONVILLE", 'CHARLOTTE', prove to be BETTER arenas. I can see the results five years age agao and today. The commissionare wanted BAD PRODUCT cities TO SUPPORT HIS thought (?) of creating his OWN KNNGDOM.
Posted by: JTHOMAS | October 19, 2009 6:46 PM
Hey Harbaugh! There is this cornerback out there named McCallister. He was pretty good and physical for a while. Why don't you be a man, talk it out, and learn to work together and improve this football team. He is better then the corners we have so we should look at him being a Raven again. You already screwed up with the kicker so now lets work to fix the defense.
Posted by: ben | October 19, 2009 8:34 PM
Are you kidding me, why did we even sign him back if he wasnt even going to play. It is CRAZY!
Posted by: ravnchic09 | October 19, 2009 9:52 PM
JTHOMAS, I have seen some illiterate, incoherent posts before, but that one is tops. If you do in fact have some point to make, you might want to try it again sometime when you're not on crack. It's not generally worth criticzing other poster's grammar and/or spelling, that comment was less than gibberish.
Posted by: steveg85321 | October 20, 2009 2:31 PM