The Ravens drafting of two tight ends – Minnesota’s Maxx Williams in the second round and Delaware’s Nick Boyle in the fifth – doesn’t necessarily mean that veteran Dennis Pitta won’t play football again. But it does reflect the reality of the situation after Pitta fractured and dislocated his hip in each of the past two seasons.
Pitta recently expressed hope that he’d return for the 2015 season and the Ravens have said that the player and the doctors will make that decision. But they obviously have to prepare for the strong possibility that Pitta won’t play again.