As he spoke with reporters following Sunday’s game, Kamar Aiken had a cut above his left eye and the exhausted look of a boxer who had just been through a 10-round fight.
The cut came when he was demolished by Jaguars linebacker Paul Posluszny, a hit that also bent Aiken’s knee backwards. After being tended to for a couple minutes by trainers, he didn’t miss a play.
“I’m hurting today,” Aiken said. “It comes along with the territory.”
Aiken was cut six times and bounced between three teams before landing on the Ravens’ practice squad midway through the 2013 season.