Some Hometown News on Ryan Jensen

[Cawtious]

Found an article on Jensen in his College hometown paper:

 

 

 

http://www.chieftain.com/sports/college/pack/1869998-120/jensen-ravens-team-division

 

 

Seems to be a bright young man with a good perspective and grateful attitude to be part of the Ravens.

[H8R]

I think its against the rules to post a whole article.

[FerrariFan87]

Found an article on Jensen in his College hometown paper:

 

Sorry everyone, here is the link:

 

http://www.chieftain.com/sports/college/pack/1869998-120/jensen-ravens-team-division

 

 

Seems to be a bright young man with a good perspective and grateful attitude to be part of the Ravens.

Thanks for sharing! It should be interesting to see what Harbs and the Ravens do when he's back healthy.

[runamuk]

awesome article thanks for the link.

[Ravenseconbeast]

nice..

[Bltravens]

Was he really as good in TC as the speculation seems to be?  I didn't really follow that closely this year.

[The Raven]

Was he really as good in TC as the speculation seems to be?  I didn't really follow that closely this year.

 

He broke his foot before the first preseason game, so I'm not believing much of what was reported about him. 

[Bltravens]

He broke his foot before the first preseason game, so I'm not believing much of what was reported about him. 

It makes no sense to me.  The guy has never played C before and comes from Colorado Pueblo which is about the weeniest D2 school there is (I played baseball with guys over the summer who'd gone there).

[rmw10]

It makes no sense to me.  The guy has never played C before and comes from Colorado Pueblo which is about the weeniest D2 school there is (I played baseball with guys over the summer who'd gone there).

 

He's a mauler type of guy, which would seem to fit more with KO and Yanda on the interior.  While Gino has a mean streak, he has a pretty high finesse quality as well.  I'm not expecting much out of Jensen, but we seem to love the head beaters in the interior of the line, with the finesse guys on the outside.

[Ravenseconbeast]

We need depth @ interior line. None of them performaning to the standards we put them on earlier in the season. Jensen might be next if gino cannot help our run game.

[ravensfan160]

It makes no sense to me.  The guy has never played C before and comes from Colorado Pueblo which is about the weeniest D2 school there is (I played baseball with guys over the summer who'd gone there).

I think they kept him on the 53 man roster to be a backup guard more than anything. Shipley is the backup center but if Reid ever had to take significant snaps for us at guard we would be in real trouble.

[Cawtious]

It makes no sense to me.  The guy has never played C before and comes from Colorado Pueblo which is about the weeniest D2 school there is (I played baseball with guys over the summer who'd gone there).

Weeniest?  Program went from no football from 1985 until 2008 to D2's #1 ranked team the past two years by the end of each of their regular seasons.  That is not just in their Super Region, but nationally.  

 

As I posted earlier, the guy played nothing but center on the O-Line until he hit college.  He was moved outside because they didn't want to waste his athleticism, speed, and outright nastiness.

 

 He played both ways his senior year of HS (DE and C) and was named All-State for DE as well as for the O-line.  Hell, he even long-snapped and punted when needed (of course not at the same time! LOL)

 

He finished in the top 5 voting for the Gene Upshaw award his senior year in College, which recognizes the top Offensive or Defensive lineman in D2.

 

The CSU-P team he just left took University of Northern Colorado D1AA school to the woodshed two weeks ago.  This kid came from anything but a weeniest school and football program.  

 

Another thing to consider is he only had one day @ TC before his injury....and he impressed enough for Harbs and Oz to keep him on the active roster.  They did their homework on the kid, and liked what they saw it OTA's and Mini-Camp....and I think that is saying something.