If Breshad Perriman can hang on to the football, he could add a new dimension to the Ravens' offense.
If he can't, well, he'll at least be in good company.
The knock on the big and fast Central Florida wide receiver is that he tends to drop passes -- he failed to hang on to 14.8 percent of on-target throws this past season.
With the Ravens, Perriman likely will line up as a starting wide receiver along with Steve Smith Sr., who had 79 receptions for 1,065 yards and six touchdowns in 2014 ... but led the NFL with 10 dropped passes.
It's not fair to suggest Smith, the Ravens' leading receiver and only returning player who had more than 25 receptions last season, has difficulty catching the football. He dropped 7.5 percent of catchable passes last season -- not particularly near the league leaders -- and was targeted 133 times, 14th-most among NFL receivers.
He's caught 915 passes for 13,262 and 73 touchdowns in a 14-year career and, though he'll be 36 this coming season, is being counted on to be a playmaker.
Perriman should probably try to emulate most parts of Smith's game. But Ravens fans should hope that the team's presumed top-two receivers challenge each other to cut down on the drops in 2015.