Left tackle Jonathan Ogden, a potential Hall of Famer who was drafted in the same opening round of the same draft as sure-fire Hall-of-Fame linebacker Ray Lewis, has told the Baltimore Ravens to assume that the lineman’s 12-year career is over.
Ogden has been bothered by a toe injury since 2006. He aggravated it in Week One of the 2007 season, and he is still bothered by it.
“It just hasn’t healed 100 percent, and I don’t know if it will,” Ogden told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, by way of the the Baltimore Sun. “I can still play, but . . . I don’t want to play if I can’t play at the level I’m capable of playing at.”
But Ogden hasn’t closed the door on returning. “I have not officially retired,” Ogden said. ”So if I come back, it’s great, they said, but they’re proceeding as if I’m not.”
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March 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I guess this means Long, Clady, Otah, and Chris Williams will all be long gone by the time the Eagles pick at 19.
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March 14th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Good riddance.
Yeah, I secretly wished he played for us all of those years.
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March 14th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
MeLLo
The Ravens have just as bad a need at corner. They could easily take a CB, DL, or even Matt Ryan if he’s at eight.
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