Starting job not assured for Ravens RB Willis McGahee

Jun/14/09 11:08 PM Filed in: Willis McGahee
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Ravens RB Willis McGahee has said all the right things about working with the second-team offense in the Ravens' recent OTAs, and the way we hear it, McGahee, on the basis of his considerable talent, likely has a slight edge to be the club's starting running back in Week One. However, a source close to the team notes that if McGahee is not healthy and motivated come training camp, the Ravens won't hesitate to use second-year back Ray Rice ahead of McGahee. Rice has gotten the first-team practice reps as McGahee, who is working his way back from knee and ankle injuries, completely heals. McGahee's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said via his RosenhausSports Twitter account that McGahee had knee and ankle surgery in the offseason. McGahee missed three games because of injury last season, the most he had missed in a season since sitting out his 2003 rookie campaign in Buffalo to recover from a serious knee injury suffered in the '03 Fiesta Bowl.


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