The Ravens placed cornerback Walt Harris on injured reserve just eight days into training camp.
The team filled his roster spot with Chris Hawkins, an undrafted rookie cornerback out of LSU who was recently released by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Harris, 35, struggled to pass the team's conditioning test. He said he had a sore Achilles tendon. Harris then frequently missed practices this past week.
"Walt was really disappointed that he wasn't able to get healthy in practice," coach John Harbaugh said after Friday's practice. "That was the toughest thing. He feels like he's close. He's coming off the [torn ACL] injury from last season. When I talked to him this morning, his goal is to go back and really get with trainers and get himself right where he feel like he can play this year. But he knows that he's not there right now."
Harbaugh didn't seem very positive about the chances of the Ravens re-signing Harris once he gets healthy.
"We like Walt," Harbaugh said. "It would always be a possibility."
The Ravens signed Harris in June to add depth to the team's cornerback group. He initially declined the Ravens' veteran minimum offer but he signed with them after the team increased the deal with incentives to sign him.
Harris missed all of last season with a torn ACL.
NOTE: The Ravens originally announced that Harris had been cut. But the team later reported that he had been placed on IR.
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