Ravens Regroup with Suggs Out for Season

Since Terrell Suggs is sidelined with an Achilles tendon injury, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh told the BaltimoreRavens.com Monday the team is looking inside first “...but we’re still in the process of evaluating our options, personnel wise.”

Suggs tore his left Achilles in the fourth quarter of the season opener against Denver Sunday night; in 2012, he tore his right Achilles, ESPN reported.

With Suggs out, the Ravens will be turning to Courtney Upshaw, Elvis Dumervil and Za’Darius Smith to pick up the slack—and sacks, in which T-Sizzle led the franchise—according to BaltimoreRavens.com, which noted that in 2012, the defensive lineman was also out when the team won the Super Bowl, so anything is possible.

Harbaugh framed injury as one of the threads that helps bind a team together.

“Adversity’s all about how you respond to it,” Harbaugh told media after the game. “...it’s how you come back and play the next game, and how our young guys step up and how our older guys wrap their wings around those young guys and they play they way they need to play.”

Said Harbaugh: “That’s what a team’s all about.”

Next up, the team takes on the Raiders in Oakland at 4:05 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 20.

Pictured, Terrell Suggs is taken off the field in Denver on Sept. 13 after tearing his Achilles. Still from NFL/YouTube.