By AARON WILSON, Landmark News Service
By AARON WILSON, Landmark News Service
Published
02/18/09
OWINGS MILLS - The Baltimore Ravens plan to designate Pro Bowl outside linebacker Terrell Suggs as their franchise player again if they are unable to strike a new contract with him prior to Thursday's NFL deadline.
J. Pat Carter — Associated Press/file
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs runs back an interception for a touchdown against Miami last October in Miami.
"If we don't have a deal, we will franchise him," Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome said in a telephone interview from Indianapolis where he's attending the annual NFL scouting combine.
It would cost the Ravens a one-year, $10.2 million salary against the 2009 salary cap to retain Suggs as their franchise player for the second year in a row. Under NFL rules governing the franchise tag, Suggs is due...
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