Ravens S Matt Elam Out For 2015 Season
Expectations were high entering camp for Ravens' 2012 first-round Draft pick Matt Elam. He hasn't exactly had an impressive start to his young career and many were thinking he would end up being a first-round bust. Elam lost his starting job to veteran Will Hill in November of last year after he missed tackles and lost receivers on routes.
Harbaugh and the Ravens publicly challenged Elam to step up in the 2015 season and reclaim his position. He responded with a great offseason and came back physically and mentally ready to compete.
During contact practice on Saturday at the Under Armour Performance Center in Owings Mills, Elam was injured reaching out to make a tackle. Coach Harbaugh was not optimistic.
"Here's a guy that came back with a renewed attitude," coach John Harbaugh said Sunday. "He had a better approach than he had the first two years. He just had grown up a little bit. He was very serious. He was in tremendous shape. And then he gets a fluke injury."
An MRI confirmed Monday that Elam suffered a complete tear of his biceps and would require season-ending surgery, missing the entire 2015 season he worked very hard preparing for, a league source told ESPN's Jamison Hensley.
