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Fred Jackson's long relationship with new Maryland football coach Michael Locksley played a significant role in his son Josh's decision to play for the Terps as a graduate transfer.

What happened to all of the roster competitions? It¿s a fair question to ask as the Ravens prepare to trim 22 players from their roster to get down to 53 by Saturday.

In early August, Buffalo Bills coach Rex Ryan said he liked his team¿s running back depth ¿ ¿we have a loaded backfield,¿ he was quoted as saying in various reports.

With former Ravens running back Ray Rice free to sign with an NFL team, take a look at where he might (and might not) end up.

The Jets are a team built to play with a lead, so it's not surprising that their game against the Bills turned into a total Dumpster fire when they fell behind by 20 points in the first half.

Baltimore Sun reporter Matt Vensel highlights five stats that really mean something for the Ravens this week, including the play of the Ravens cornerbacks against the Bengals, the team's stingy run defense and more.

Ravens backup nose tackle Terrence Cody is making progress since spraining his left knee against the Houston Texans and is hopeful of returning as soon as next week.

For Ravens rookie free safety Matt Elam, Sunday's game against the Miami Dolphins represents a homecoming.

Whichever direction Buffalo Bills runners Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller chose, they left behind a trail of Ravens cleat marks and fallen defenders.

In the months after the read-option took the NFL by storm, defensive coaches around the league became hell-bent on eradicating it, hoping to make the read-option go the way of the Wildcat and other near-extinct schemes.

A roundup of NFL experts' picks for Sunday's game between the Ravens and Buffalo Bills.

In this week's Blogger on Blogger post, Matt Vensel exchanged emails with Brian Galliford, who blogs about the Buffalo Bills for Buffalo Rumblings. The Baltimore Ravens travel to Buffalo to play the Bills this weekend.

Each week, Baltimore Sun reporters Aaron Wilson and Matt Vensel will look back at the Ravens' previous game and that of their next opponent.

Ray Rice and Bernard Pierce took turns tearing through defenses last season. But in the second quarter of the Super Bowl, the Ravens sent the Pro Bowl running back and his rookie understudy onto the field together for the first time all season.

Baltimore Sun reporter Jeff Zrebiec breaks down the Baltimore Ravens vs. Cleveland Browns game at M&T Bank Stadium on Thursday night.

Every Monday, the day after our favorite day of the week but still hours before that week's slate of games officially wraps up with "Monday Night Football," Matt Vensel will bring you his weekly premature NFL power rankings. Why Monday? Because who wants to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday for power rankings?

The timing is a little peculiar, but the Denver Broncos said adieu to former starting quarterback Kyle Orton on Tuesday. He had a good fantasy run under Josh McDaniels, but turnovers did him in with new coach John Fox. Is he worth a waiver claim? You have to read on to find out.

Every season, a few surprise studs come out of fantasy Siberia to reward savvy owners who had the foresight to select them in the later rounds of the draft. A season ago, Adrian Foster, Peyton Hillis and Brandon Lloyd come to mind. Ray Rice, Miles Austin and Sidney Rice were unlikely heroes in 2009. And so on and so forth. Midway through the 2011 season, let's take a look at this year's biggest fantasy surprises.

Carson Palmer will be a hot commodity on the waiver wire this week after the Cincinnati Bengals traded him to the Oakland Raiders for a pair of high draft picks. I can't imagine someone in your fantasy league already has him on his or her roster -- unless you're in a league with Mike Brown, who finally made a deal Tuesday.

Despite his Harvard pedigree, Fitzpatrick fitting in blue-collar Buffalo