[News] Wide Receiver Kamar Aiken Signs Restricted Free Agent Tender

[BR News]

The fourth-year wide receiver signed his second-round restricted free agent tender as offseason workouts opened Monday.

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[Fastynart]

I am glad to see Aiken back. He deserves it. Instead of all this baloney about Perriman, who hasn't even caught a pass for real, Aiken stepped up and made the most of his opportunity. Reward him instead of some maybe who can't stay healthy enough to even start the season. Another wasted high draft pick by the Great Oz.

[gkro]

I am glad to see Aiken back. He deserves it. Instead of all this baloney about Perriman, who hasn't even caught a pass for real, Aiken stepped up and made the most of his opportunity. Reward him instead of some maybe who can't stay healthy enough to even start the season. Another wasted high draft pick by the Great Oz.

Yeah, the Great Oz should have known that Perriman was going to blow out his knee just a couple of month after he drafted him. What an idiot.

[cec327]

All Aiken does is make difficult catches, plays tough, and never complains. He deserves it and will be even better this year.

[bioLarzen]

Good.

BTW - not at all important, just thought about it: now that we also have Mike Wallace, who's gonna have the #11 jersey?

[Ravenous_Ravens]

Good.

BTW - not at all important, just thought about it: now that we also have Mike Wallace, who's gonna have the #11 jersey?

Well Aiken of course, unless Wallace decides to pay him for it or some other arrangement.

Glad to see Aiken stick around. I have a feeling he will become an impact player this season. With a healthy (or healthier) Wr corps, you simply cannot cover everyone and teams will have their hands full as it is with S.S.Sr, Wallace, Perriman stretching the field.

[ellicottraven]

Aiken has been a very steady pair of hands for the Ravens receiving corps. I respect his work ethic and no nonsense attitude. I also think he's just waiting to break out big time this year. With Perriman (who looked good sprinting around in the video released today) and Wallace stretching the field, Aiken and SSR will be critical to moving the football. So awesome that he signed and working out with the team.

[FloridalovesRavens]

  4 hours ago, Fastynart said:

I am glad to see Aiken back. He deserves it. Instead of all this baloney about Perriman, who hasn't even caught a pass for real, Aiken stepped up and made the most of his opportunity. Reward him instead of some maybe who can't stay healthy enough to even start the season. Another wasted high draft pick by the Great Oz.

Yeah, the Great Oz should have known that Perriman was going to blow out his knee just a couple of month after he drafted him. What an idiot.

Great reply!

[EdTheMythicalOne]

I am glad to see Aiken back. He deserves it. Instead of all this baloney about Perriman, who hasn't even caught a pass for real, Aiken stepped up and made the most of his opportunity. Reward him instead of some maybe who can't stay healthy enough to even start the season. Another wasted high draft pick by the Great Oz.

You forgot to add that Aiken drops easy passes and wide open passes too. He should have had a 1,000 yard season save for all of his drops. That's the main area where he needs to improve, concentration.

[mearzunkies]

Aiken is a very nice piece. With SSS, Wallace(ehhh IMO) and IF Permian can play AT all(if he does not play Wallace loses the ehh tag because he will be forced the ball) this group looks Solid!

[Space11jams]

I am glad to see Aiken back. He deserves it. Instead of all this baloney about Perriman, who hasn't even caught a pass for real, Aiken stepped up and made the most of his opportunity. Reward him instead of some maybe who can't stay healthy enough to even start the season. Another wasted high draft pick by the Great Oz.

it is too early to determine if he's a wasted draft pick

[rmcjacket23]

20 hours ago, Fastynart said:

I am glad to see Aiken back. He deserves it. Instead of all this baloney about Perriman, who hasn't even caught a pass for real, Aiken stepped up and made the most of his opportunity. Reward him instead of some maybe who can't stay healthy enough to even start the season. Another wasted high draft pick by the Great Oz.

Outstanding hindsight analysis, as always.

[757RavensFan]

15 hours ago, EdTheMythicalOne said:

You forgot to add that Aiken drops easy passes and wide open passes too. He should have had a 1,000 yard season save for all of his drops. That's the main area where he needs to improve, concentration.

I don't know what games you were watching, but Aiken was the most sure handed receiver we had last season.  

Per this site, (I don't know how valid it is), he was targeted a 127 times, 75 catches and only TWO dropped passes in 2015.  

What more can you ask for?

http://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/drops/2015/

[Purple Dawg 96]

I like Kamar Aiken and I hope the Ravens use him correctly! Feel like he can ball like Anquan Bolden!

[EdTheMythicalOne]

On 4/18/2016 at 6:24 PM, EdTheMythicalOne said:

You forgot to add that Aiken drops easy passes and wide open passes too. He should have had a 1,000 yard season save for all of his drops. That's the main area where he needs to improve, concentration.

The negatives I got on this post of mine are obviously people who didn't pay attention to the games last year and don't like the truth. Dude has a serious case of the dropsies.

[EdTheMythicalOne]

On 4/19/2016 at 10:09 AM, 757RavensFan said:

I don't know what games you were watching, but Aiken was the most sure handed receiver we had last season.  

Per this site, (I don't know how valid it is), he was targeted a 127 times, 75 catches and only TWO dropped passes in 2015.  

What more can you ask for?

http://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/drops/2015/

I'd like to know where these people are getting their data from because I know what I saw on the field last year. There is no way that he only dropped 2 passes for the whole season. According to that site Joe Flacco only had 7 passes dropped all of last season. Granted he did miss time and didn't play a whole season, but that just doesn't pass the sniff test. I watch every single game as I am sure most fans do and I think the majority of them would agree with me that there were a lot more than 7 dropped passes for Flacco. In fact, from what I was looking at it seems to say the Ravens only had 12 dropped passes all season.

That site looks like an awesome resource but it doesn't say exactly what their process is for gathering the information.

Edited April 24, 2016 by EdTheMythicalOne

[EdTheMythicalOne]

On 4/18/2016 at 0:59 PM, Fastynart said:

I am glad to see Aiken back. He deserves it. Instead of all this baloney about Perriman, who hasn't even caught a pass for real, Aiken stepped up and made the most of his opportunity. Reward him instead of some maybe who can't stay healthy enough to even start the season. Another wasted high draft pick by the Great Oz.

Aiken did have a nice season and made the most of his opportunity, but the Ravens have been bitten by the one year wonder in the past. There's a reason why he's been in the league for so long and hadn't caught on. Kelley Washington comes to mind. He was a journeyman WR that never really did much before he got to Baltimore, had his best season every with the Ravens, then went to the Chargers and returned to his pedestrian self and was out of football the next season. Granted Washington was 30 at the time the Ravens got him.

If Aiken gets anywhere near the same number of targets in 2016 as he did in 2015, that's bad news for the Ravens because that means the starters in front of him aren't playing.