With cameras lining the sidewalk near the players' entrance of the Ravens facility in Owings Mills, stalwart outside linebacker Terrell Suggs was, predictably, the only player to acknowledge the attention given to the mundane act of showing up for work.
Others entered the building with their head down, but Suggs — who became the Ravens' last remaining defensive star this offseason and spent the time away from the team facility enjoying his celebrity — gave a smile and a wave as the final act of his summer.
With his conditioning test passed "convincingly" and carrying a body he said was lighter than earlier this summer, the longest-tenured Raven began a shift to football for a team that like so many others in franchise history has high expectations, even if the defense is shying away from relying on stars like himself.