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Ravens second-round inside linebacker Arthur Brown recently underwent sports hernia surgery and was sidelined at practice.

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As the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Ravens had an extremely eventful offseason where they overhauled their roster and dealt with a tight salary-cap situation by making a series of tough decisions.

The former West Virginia wide receiver is slated for a deal worth roughly $12.668 million that includes a signing bonus of $7.65 million.

The Ravens on Thursday added another another body to the competition to replace retired center Matt Birk, trading a conditional 2014 pick to the Indianapolis Colts for center A.Q. Shipley. Shipley will compete with Gino Gradkowski and 2013 draft pick Ryan Jensen.

Joe Flacco has closed the gap over the past two years. In Flacco's first three years in the league, Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers typically got the better of Flacco and the Ravens. But the past two years, the AFC North has belonged to Baltimore.

Kevin Dorsey, a Green Bay Packers draft pick, talks about his career with the Maryland Terps.

The Ravens have released former Ole Miss basketball player Murphy Holloway and four other players.

With the Super Bowl champions re-signing left tackle Bryant McKinnie to a two-year contract with a maximum value of $7 million, Osemele is slated to play left guard where he lined up during the Ravens' playoff run.

Joe Vellano, a three-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference honoree, signed Tuesday with the New England Patriots, according to Terps coach Randy Edsall.

Just two days ago, the Ravens wrapped another successful draft, selecting a 10-player class that is being hailed as one of the weekend's best by many draft analysts. Next there are minicamps, offseason workouts and later a training camp to be conducted, and, eventually, games will be played. But who cares about all that? Let's look ahead to the 2014 NFL draft.

Five NFL analysts chimed in on the Baltimore Ravens' draft class, and the consensus is they did a good job with a 10-player class that includes Florida safety Matt Elam and Kansas State inside linebacker Arthur Brown.

As the second round of the 2013 NFL draft wound down Friday night, the Ravens traded a pair of draft picks to the Seattle Seahawks in order to move up six spots and draft Kansas State inside linebacker Arthur Brown. If they hadn't moved up to get him, another team reportedly would have drafted Brown first.

Ravens veteran free agent offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie is visiting the Miami Dolphins today and taking a physical, according to a source.

Ryan Jensen is another example of the Baltimore Ravens' recent drafting trend of investing a significant amount of resources into scouting smaller colleges.

Ravens get offensive and defensive line depth in final day of draft

The 2013 NFL draft is over, and looking back at what the Ravens have accomplished this weekend, it's fairly obvious that they wanted to focus on defense after slowly rebuilding the offense over the past few years.

Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome always talks about taking the best player available, but the early picks in this year's NFL draft have fit perfectly into the blueprint that he laid out during the team's postseason news conference in early February.

When announcing the selection of Matt Elam late Thursday night, director of college scouting Joe Hortiz said that the 21-year-old plays like a Raven. Team officials use that expression often when describing a player who competes with an edge and loves to fly around the field chasing the ball and making punishing hits.

Baltimore Sun staffers analyze the Baltimore Ravens on Day 2 of the 2013 NFL draft.

Nationally, the TV audience for the first night of the NFL draft was down a bit from last year, but Baltimore tuned in in a big way.

Here's a look at what national media are saying about the St. Louis Rams drafting former Dunbar star Tavon Austin with the No. 8 pick in the 2013 NFL draft.

Baltimore Sun reporter Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports.

Ravens GM Ozzie Newsome said it wasn't a very hard decision. Florida safety Matt Elam was the best player available when the Ravens made the final pick of Thursday night's first round of the NFL draft and they were thrilled to get him.

Tavon Austin was selected eighth overall by the St. Louis Rams, who made a trade with the Buffalo Bills to draft him in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft.

The Ravens capped the first round of the 2013 NFL draft by selecting safety Matt Elam of Florida with the final pick of the night at No. 32.

The first 10 picks of the NFL draft took just under an hour and a half, a pace that would put the Ravens on the clock sometime tomorrow morning, but don't despair. The pace generally picks up after the first 10 rounds, since I'm pretty sure that the NFL and ESPN intentionally squeezed every minute out of the top picks.

Matt Vensel answered questions about the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL draft.

Matt Furstenburg came to College Park in 2008 as a well-regarded prep school tight end. Five years later, the Hunterdon, N.J., native leaves Maryland as the Terps¿ top NFL draft prospect.

Austin is quick to admit being a first-round pick probably wouldn't have been the case a few years ago, when NFL teams wouldn't have coveted a 5-foot-8, 174-pound receiver who did most of his damage out the slot, no matter how slippery he was in the open field.

Matt Vensel chatted about the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL draft.