Following a long day of workouts, meetings, and practice as part of the Ravens' second set of organized team activities, the rookies stayed late Tuesday afternoon in Owings Mills for a presentation that focused on their lives away from the team facility.
For more than an hour, the rookies engaged in a conversation and presentation about domestic violence from the House of Ruth Maryland, a local intimate partner violence center that partnered with the team last summer in the wake of former running back Ray Rice's domestic assault case.
"I think it's important for young men in every place in our community to be exposed to this kind of information and conversation, and a lot of it is conversation around what our culture, what our society expects of young men, particularly athletic young men, and how it is counter in many ways to a young man being able to form a healthy relationship with women," said Sandi Timmins, executive director of the House of Ruth Maryland.