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Tag: "running back"

Ricky Williams Message for Teammates: Hit the Patriots in the Mouth

Since the New England Patriots moved into Gillette Stadium beginning in the 2002 season, no team has complied more wins at home than the Patriots. The Patriots are an impressive 67-13 in the regular season and an even more impressive 8-2 in the postseason all-time at Gillette Stadium. Bitter, cold conditions in the months of [...]

Ravens’ Short Yardage Offense a Cause for Concern?

It’s no secret the identity of the Baltimore Ravens’ offense is their running game, but you could have been fooled by watching them in short-yardage situations in their divisional-round victory over the Houston Texans last week. In that game, the Ravens converted three of 10 plays in which they needed two yards or less to [...]

AFC Divisional-Round Preview: Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens

The divisional-round of the NFL playoffs will make a stop in Charm City on Sunday when the Baltimore Ravens host theĀ  Houston Texans. Sunday marks the first home playoff game in the John Harbaugh era. Harbaugh helped guide the Ravens to a wild-card berth in each of his first three seasons as the team’s head [...]

Rice Beats out Suggs in Narrow Vote for Ravens Team MVP

In what was an extremely tight vote, Ravens running back Ray Rice was selected as the team’s 2011 Most Valuable Player, as voted on by members of the media that cover the team on a everyday basis, according to Don Kolko of MASNSports.com. Rice, 24, finished the regular season ranking first in the NFL with [...]

Ray Rice is in the Best Shape of his Career

One moth ago Baltimore Ravens Pro Bowl fullback Vonta Leach sent running back Ray Rice a text message listing the NFL’s top running backs, with the suggestion that Rice, who was not in his top ten, needed to get it going. Whatever Leach said, it worked. Rice went a rampage to end the regular season, [...]

Rice Named AFC Offensive Player of the Week

Baltimore Ravens Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week for second time in five weeks. Rice led all running backs last week with 191 rushing yards in the Ravens’ 24-16 victory at Cincinnati. He scored two touchdowns on runs of 70 and 51 yards to set the team [...]

Steelers’ Rashard Mendenhall Out for Playoffs with Torn ACL

Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall has a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee and will be placed on injured reserve by the Steelers, ending his chances of playing in the postseason, according to Ed Bouchette of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The injury occurred during the Steelers’ 13-9 victory over the Cleveland Browns [...]