Before you wrap up your week and get ready to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with an extra large margarita, here's the latest Baltimore Ravens news. Baltimore Ravens Roundup: 2019 draft class reports for minicamp originally appeared on nbcsportswashington.com Before you wrap up your week and get ready to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with an extra large margarita, here's the latest Baltimore Ravens news. Player/Team Notes: 1. The Ravens' 2019 rookie class reported for duty Thursday as their rookie minicamp will be taking place Friday and Saturday at the Under Armour Performance Center. While first-round pick Marquise Brown will be sidelined for camp while he recovers from Lisfranc foot surgery, Trace McSorley, Justice Hill, Jaylen Furgeson, Ben Powers, Miles Boykin and undrafted free agents will begin fighting for their spot on the 53-man roster. The Baltimore Ravens laid out a few questions facing the rookies heading into camp. 2. Wide receiver Quincy Adeboyejo announced on Twitter that after 12 months of rehab he has finally been cleared to play. After undergoing surgery on his leg in May of 2018, his rehabilitation took much longer than expected causing Adeboyejo to question whether or not he'd every play football again. Check out his Twitter thread where he describes the last 12 months and how grateful he is to get back to work. 3. Unrestricted free agent Maxx Williams has found a new home. The tight end announced via Twitter that he will be heading to Arizona to play with Kyler Murray and the Cardinals. Selected by the Ravens in the second-round of the 2015 NFL Draft, Williams had 16 receptions for 143 yards and one touchdown in 2018. Looking Ahead: May 3-6: Three-day rookie minicamp Story continues July 15: 4 p.m. deadline to get long-term deal done with designated franchise tag player The 2019 NFL schedule is set! See the Baltimore Ravens defend the AFC North at M&T Bank Stadium this season. Get your tickets now at www.BaltimoreRavens.com/tickets. MORE RAVENS NEWS:<doc-sep>“It could be taken two ways. For the most part, it was just from all the sacks, coming in after a game in one of my sack games. … I might have had three or four sacks. I came in the room joking around with my teammates and [somebody said], ‘Oh, you’re the Sack Daddy now. You got all the sacks. You’re on top of everybody.’ So [I said], ‘OK, just don’t call me that in public, because I’m not that kind of person.’ ”<doc-sep>OWINGS MILLS, Md. — At one point during Baltimore Ravens rookie minicamp practice Saturday, wide receivers coach David Culley yelled out an unusual compliment. “Good,” Culley shouted in the direction of Joe Horn Jr. “I’ve seen your dad run that route a thousand times.” Horn had just completed a comeback route in which he sprinted forward, stopped on a dime and darted toward the quarterback to haul in a pass. His father, Joe Horn Sr., accomplished that task many times during a 12-year NFL career — and he ran all sorts of other routes while he racked up 603 catches, 8,744 receiving yards and four Pro Bowl appearances. Horn Sr. entered the league as a fifth-round pick of the Chiefs in 1996 and enjoyed his greatest success with the Saints. He’s perhaps most famous for making a call to celebrate a touchdown against the Giants in 2003 after a teammate pulled a cell phone out of the padding around a field goal post. The younger Horn, who played his college ball at Missouri Western State, is still working to carve a path onto an NFL roster. He spent the past two days aiming to catch on with the Ravens, who welcomed him to rookie minicamp on a tryout basis. 38 Quarterback Trace McSorley at Baltimore Ravens rookie camp As of Sunday morning, Horn Jr. hadn’t signed with Baltimore, but coach John Harbaugh said he made a strong impression during practices Friday and Saturday. The 5-foot-10, 185-pound Horn pulled in a few receptions in 7-on-7 drills Saturday. “I guess the thing that struck me about him was he looked like Joe Horn. Joe Horn looked like Joe Horn,” Harbaugh said. “His son looks like him – quick, fast, real good hands [and strong] in and out of breaks. You can tell he’s worked with his dad a lot on technique.” Below are blurbs on three other notable players who attended Ravens rookie minicamp on a tryout basis… QB Jalan McClendon (Baylor) -- McClendon, a 6-foot-5 quarterback with a big arm, impressed throughout Saturday’s rookie minicamp practice, spinning a couple accurate deep passes down both sidelines. He played three seasons at N.C. State before transferring to Baylor and made just one start during his college career. But he harbors potential, and the Ravens will probably sign a fourth quarterback at some point before training camp begins this summer. McClendon might stand as the best option. WR Taivon Jacobs (Maryland) -- Jacobs, a Maryland native who played at the state’s flagship university, stood out as one of the most explosive receivers on the field Saturday. He was a top target for McClendon and quarterback Trace McSorley in team drills and showed off burst throughout the session. The Ravens drafted two receivers and signed three undrafted players at the position, so Jacobs might not have room to make the 90-man roster in Baltimore. He displayed the chops to latch on somewhere else, though. RB L.J. Scott (Michigan State) -- Scott scored 11 touchdowns as a freshman for the Spartans in 2015 before his numbers began to sag. A 6-foot-1, 225-pound running back, Scott has the size to fit well in Baltimore’s offense, but the Ravens already have three physical runners on the depth chart in Mark Ingram, Gus Edwards and Kenneth Dixon. While the Ravens could look to add Scott — or another ball-carrier — to shoulder the training camp workload, it seems unlikely that they’ll have room for an upstart runner to make the 53-man roster inthe fall. -- @AaronKazreports<doc-sep>OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Shortly after signing his first NFL contract Saturday, Trace McSorley trotted onto the practice fields at Under Armour Performance Center as the top quarterback at Baltimore Ravens rookie minicamp. The former Penn State star led the offense at the workout and whipped passes to teammates for much of the two-hour session. McSorley, a sixth-round pick who could play special teams as a rookie, also fielded a couple punts early in practice. You can watch some of McSorley’s tosses in the video below… McSorley enjoyed bright moments at the practice, which featured seven of the Ravens’ eight draft picks (first-round receiver Marquise Brown is recovering from foot surgery), 17 undrafted free agents and a handful of tryout players. McSorley lofted a nice deep ball down the right sideline at one point and connected on several mid-range passes in 7-on-7 drills. At other times, McSorley’s passes included a noticeable wobble, and threw an interception while trying to hit a tight end on a route across the middle of the field. Linebacker Alvin Jones anticipated McSorley’s throw and leapt to snag the pick. Coach John Harbaugh said he was impressed with McSorley all in all. “He looked good,” Harbaugh said. “He gets the ball out for the most part on time. It’s not like a live practice at all, so you don’t really get to see some of the others skills, the scrambling and stuff.” During the practice, the team tweeted the news that McSorley officially signed a four-year rookie contract. Most components of a draft pick’s contract are predetermined by the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement with its players association, so this deal essentially boiled down to a matter of housekeeping. Spotrac.com estimated McSorley’s contract is worth $2.6 million over four years with a $109,257 signing bonus. -- @AaronKazreports<doc-sep>
Much of the coverage regarding the Baltimore Ravens’ rookies has been centered on the team’s draft picks. However, with three of the eight Baltimore draft picks unsigned as of Saturday, some of the team’s more unheralded rookies got a brief moment in the spotlight at Saturday’s practice. In addition to the 17 undrafted rookies the Ravens have signed — as well as the eight taken in the draft — a number of tryout players are also in attendance at Baltimore’s rookie minicamp and vying for a spot on the 90-man roster. A couple of these players made good impressions on the coaches and media members in attendance. Chief among them was wide receiver Joe Horn Jr. — son of former New Orleans Saints receiver Joe Horn — who received a shoutout from coach John Harbaugh during Saturday’s presser. “Joe Horn (Jr.) looked like Joe Horn,” Harbaugh said. “His son looks like him; quick, fast, real good hands, in-and-out of breaks. You can tell he’s worked with his Dad a lot on technique. I thought he just looked excellent.” Wide receivers coach David Culley also had praise for the young receiver. “Joe, your dad would be proud of you on that play,” Culley said on Saturday after Horn executed a clean comeback route, per ESPN’s Jamison Hensley. Fellow tryout quarterback Jalan McClendon also drew praise for his performance. While the Ravens are already set to enter training camp with three quarterbacks — Lamar Jackson, Robert Griffin III and rookie sixth-round pick Trace McSorley — McClendon could be a serviceable camp arm. “If the Ravens want to keep four QBs for the offseason, McClendon could’ve earned a spot on the 90-man roster,” said Hensley via Twitter. “He threw some excellent passes, and at 6-foot-5, 219 pounds, he has the classic dropback quarterback size,” wrote Clifton Brown of BaltimoreRavens.com. Though these players all have outside shots at making the team, Baltimore does have a history of drawing from the tryout pool to fill their roster. Over the past two seasons, the Ravens have signed six tryout players to the 90-man roster — four in 2017 and two last season. One of those players from 2018 — wide receiver/return specialist Janarion Grant — actually managed to crack the final roster and played in two games for Baltimore last season. Cornerback Jaylen Hill did the same the year before, appearing in six games for the Ravens in 2017.