Devin Hester is trying out...Hester Signed!!!

[757RavensFan]

Reportedly, he's at the Castle trying out. They're probably just kicking the tires on him. 

[January J]

Very interesting. One play could have potentially sealed camps fate. I doubt it- but its now questionable.

[usmccharles]

With how hard it is cutting the roster down to 53, its risky imo to give a spot to a player who will only be a returner.  When we had Jacoby, he at least contributed in the receiving game as well, not much but some and was also responsible for key plays. 

[rmw10]

I think that if we do sign Hester, I'd guess it's likely to be after week 1 so his salary isn't guaranteed for the year.

[K-Dog]

2 minutes ago, rmw10 said:

I think that if we do sign Hester, I'd guess it's likely to be after week 1 so his salary isn't guaranteed for the year.

Sounds good, but someone might be more desperate and sign him before that. Which to me is not too big of a deal.

That said I love to have him on our team.

[jazz1988]

9 minutes ago, usmccharles said:

With how hard it is cutting the roster down to 53, its risky imo to give a spot to a player who will only be a returner.  When we had Jacoby, he at least contributed in the receiving game as well, not much but some and was also responsible for key plays. 

So did Devin Hestor for The Falcons in 2014 . If Hestor is still somewhat fast then I can't see how he can't be used as a receiver at times especially in the slot.Unless one of The Ravens top four receivers get hurt then the fifth or sixth receiver most likely won't see much playing time on offense .

[rmcjacket23]

1 minute ago, jazz1988 said:

So did Devin Hestor for The Falcons in 2014 . If Hestor is still somewhat fast then I can't see how he can't be used as a receiver at times especially in the slot.Unless one of The Ravens top four receivers get hurt then the fifth or sixth receiver most likely won't see much playing time on offense .

Right but Hester was running as the 3rd or 4th receiver in a very pass heavy offense in 2014. He won't be anything higher than 5th at WR on this team, and it would take multiple injuries for him to get that high.

I'd put him in the same boat as Camp as far as offensive output... if he averages 1 catch a game, I think that's his ceiling. 

[MissRay27]

There must be a younger guy out there with at least college experience to bring in and that a look at over the weekend. The film room is in overload. Ravens don't really have the luxury of just a trick pony guy on the roster right now. We need depth in the LB, OL and DB. Tough choices for the Wizard and Harbs. 

[usmccharles]

12 minutes ago, MissRay27 said:

There must be a younger guy out there with at least college experience to bring in and that a look at over the weekend. The film room is in overload. Ravens don't really have the luxury of just a trick pony guy on the roster right now. We need depth in the LB, OL and DB. Tough choices for the Wizard and Harbs. 

I really wanted us to draft Jakeem Grant just for this purpose, he is like a Trindon Holiday. 

 

18 minutes ago, jazz1988 said:

So did Devin Hestor for The Falcons in 2014 . If Hestor is still somewhat fast then I can't see how he can't be used as a receiver at times especially in the slot.Unless one of The Ravens top four receivers get hurt then the fifth or sixth receiver most likely won't see much playing time on offense .

Yea that was because lack of depth at WR and injuries.  Hester would never see the field ahead of Wallace, Aiken, SSr, even BP.  We have more options and throw a lot less than Atlanta.

[Militant X 1]

2 hours ago, January J said:

Very interesting. One play could have potentially sealed camps fate. I doubt it- but its now questionable.

It may have.  At least Hester (if we sign him) is very experienced in the kick-off/punt return game.

[JoeyFlex5]

we dont have the roster space for this. i strongly disagree. i think chris moore would be the best bet.

[Purple_City39]

1 hour ago, JoeyFlex5 said:

we dont have the roster space for this. i strongly disagree. i think chris moore would be the best bet.

I'm in agreement that Chris Moore should be given the chance.  Realistically, as good as anyone may feel Moore is or will be (I personally love his potential), he won't play ahead of SSS, Aiken, Wallace, or Perriman.  So as opposed to making him a potential inactive on game days, let him see the field as a returner

[Willbacker]

No to Hester. Let Moore do kickoffs and Camp do punts. I'm not gonna demonize Camp for one mishandle

[jazz1988]

1 hour ago, Purple_City39 said:

I'm in agreement that Chris Moore should be given the chance.  Realistically, as good as anyone may feel Moore is or will be (I personally love his potential), he won't play ahead of SSS, Aiken, Wallace, or Perriman.  So as opposed to making him a potential inactive on game days, let him see the field as a returner

He may be given a chance but The Ravens have seen him at kick returner before in practice so what ever he has shown must have not been enough for The Ravens coaches to have full confidence in him.

[Deflated Football]

Hester would just be a luxury. Is he still even dangerous when returning kicks? 

[usmccharles]

56 minutes ago, Deflated Football said:

Hester would just be a luxury. Is he still even dangerous when returning kicks? 

2014 he played all 16 games for Atlanta and put up 1370 total return yards and 2 TDs, 3rd best year in career yard wise.

Last year only played in 5 games and had 270 total return yards with 0 TDs.

So clearly there was a health issue last year, but if we could get 2014 Hester, im down.

Edited September 2, 2016 by usmccharles

[Underdogsontop!]

I read in an article that he still has toe issues so I highly doubt our FO would sign a guy that's not healthy enough to start soon. 

[kjbmore]

Crazy to thing we can go into the season with soooo many receivers- talk about taking 7 and not have somebody we are comfortable with returning kickoffs/punts

At the death, we're working out a guy who is 33 and missed a whole heap of last season - wonder what might happen to him at some stage this year, given that he's one year older, is there a strong chance he may get injured again??

I'm sorry but if this was a public company, people would be fired over this kind of stuff. 

Lets go into the season and hope that a guy who hasn't been healthy in his 3 seasons miraculously gets healthy and stays healthy - yep ok that sounds like a strong solid, likely to succeed plan - we happy with that - yep ok

but just in case, we better get a back up, just in case you know, sure it'll be fine but just in case 

ok let's draft somebody with no return experience, who was playing as a qb last season, sure he'll be ok at it - yep great, solid backup plan

i know clay didn't work out but damn with so many picks in the draft, you think we could have at least sniffed a return guy

nope we were relying on a oft injured guy, a rookie whoever never returned and know looking at a 33 yr old who missed bill playing time last season.

talk about playing well in all 3 phases - our ST had not filled me with any confidence this season, coverage has been horrible, few dropped punts, haven't looked dangerous returning - had a couple guys you think that was solid we could live with that but nobody you think oh damn he gets some space here - now we don't even know who's going to be the return man - come on get it together, why you get paid the big bucks

[January J]

17 minutes ago, kjbmore said:

Crazy to thing we can go into the season with soooo many receivers- talk about taking 7 and not have somebody we are comfortable with returning kickoffs/punts

At the death, we're working out a guy who is 33 and missed a whole heap of last season - wonder what might happen to him at some stage this year, given that he's one year older, is there a strong chance he may get injured again??

I'm sorry but if this was a public company, people would be fired over this kind of stuff. 

Lets go into the season and hope that a guy who hasn't been healthy in his 3 seasons miraculously gets healthy and stays healthy - yep ok that sounds like a strong solid, likely to succeed plan - we happy with that - yep ok

but just in case, we better get a back up, just in case you know, sure it'll be fine but just in case 

ok let's draft somebody with no return experience, who was playing as a qb last season, sure he'll be ok at it - yep great, solid backup plan

i know clay didn't work out but damn with so many picks in the draft, you think we could have at least sniffed a return guy

nope we were relying on a oft injured guy, a rookie whoever never returned and know looking at a 33 yr old who missed bill playing time last season.

talk about playing well in all 3 phases - our ST had not filled me with any confidence this season, coverage has been horrible, few dropped punts, haven't looked dangerous returning - had a couple guys you think that was solid we could live with that but nobody you think oh damn he gets some space here - now we don't even know who's going to be the return man - come on get it together, why you get paid the big bucks

I'd say your being a  little pessimistic but you definitely have a point. We're usually pretty solid at special teams but so far our kick coverage has been god awful and we haven't returned a kick past the 23 yard line.

[Maryland]

If they decide to go with Moore, they had better give him a ton of reps at KR over the next few days to give him some experience. He looked good returning 1 kick--that's all we've seen. He didn't even do it much in college either (11 total returns in 4 seasons). This lack of experience leads me to doubt they roll with him at KR for the season. Mike Wallace is a lot more experienced than Moore if we're counting college, not that he's a great candidate from an experience standpoint either.

I'm really not excited about Hester after hearing Falcons fans complain about his poor decision-making and seeing it for myself on a few occasions. Add in the fact that he's old and coming off an injury that is notorious for ending careers and I'm pretty cold on the idea. 

[Filmstudy]

I think the Ravens will see better use of depth at WR this season.  The team is blessed with 3 legitimate vertical threats and that can wear on a defense if used in rotation.  The Saints have been effective in their best years with this sort of rotation.  In a 65-snap game, assuming 2.4 receivers per play, they have 156 WR snaps to distribute to what will likely be 5 active receivers.  I'd like to see the highest individual workloads in the vicinity of 50 snaps.  Perhaps more importantly, I'd like to see 20+ snaps from each of the primary vertical threats. 

[BmoreBird22]

16 hours ago, JoeyFlex5 said:

we dont have the roster space for this. i strongly disagree. i think chris moore would be the best bet.

He's returned 11 kickoffs in his career in college and never returned a punt. I don't know about that.

[ERey]

If they don't sign Hester then they need to keep Campanaro and maybe work Chris Moore in throughout the season. I wouldn't just put Moore back there with one return under his belt.

[ellicottraven]

It burns me that we'll end up using a roster spot on Hester potentially. Especially when potential studs like Victor Ochi and several other really talented CBs may be let go because that one spot was taken away. I would rather we carry all home grown team of 53 that is young and coached up than get Hester.

[January J]

14 minutes ago, ellicottraven said:

It burns me that we'll end up using a roster spot on Hester potentially. Especially when potential studs like Victor Ochi and several other really talented CBs may be let go because that one spot was taken away. I would rather we carry all home grown team of 53 that is young and coached up than get Hester.

Yeah but the only way we would sign Hester would be at the expense of campanaro. So were not really wasting a roster spot.. He will just be occupying camps. Unless your saying we should cut camp and stay away from Hester as well. But then the KR/PR position Is still up in the air.

[ellicottraven]

55 minutes ago, January J said:

Yeah but the only way we would sign Hester would be at the expense of campanaro. So were not really wasting a roster spot.. He will just be occupying camps. Unless your saying we should cut camp and stay away from Hester as well. But then the KR/PR position Is still up in the air.

But think about the new rules for kickoff returns. A fair catch gets us to the 25 yd line and Chris Moore who I believe must make the roster was pretty decent at it the time we saw him on return duty. When you think about punt return duties, we may have 2-4 punt returns a game and SSS and Webb will safely handle fair catch duties if need be. Also, Dixon when he comes back can handle kick off duties as well. So, in lieu of signing Hester even if Camps is cut, that releases a spot for another deep position. Waller is going to be back week 5 and we need him so we can keep an extra LBer or CB that can help with special teams. Just random thoughts from me though...

[BmoreBird22]

Apparently Hester isn't 100% from the toe injury and the Ravens are waiting for him to be fully healthy.

They want him if he can get healthy

[rmcjacket23]

According to Zrebiec, Hester worked out for us this morning and took a physical.

Said whether to sign him is up to Ozzie now and they are working on a deal.

Sounds like this is happening if he's healthy.

[BmoreBird22]

Camp wasn't at practice today, so you have to imagine this deal gets done. 

[Sami84]

wow..this is dissapointing

a 33 year old returner? I dont care about how good he was half a decade ago..

 

bad bad move. Thumbs down.. wasted roster spot. Looks like Ochi isnt going to make the team either.