Ravens WR Rashod Bateman ‘out for a couple days’ after receiving cortisone injection in his foot to help recovery
Even as the Ravens welcomed Odell Beckham Jr. to the practice field Tuesday, coach John Harbaugh announced one of the team’s other key wide receivers, Rashod Bateman, will miss “a couple days” of mandatory minicamp after he received a cortisone injection to help with his recovery from Lisfranc surgery on his foot.
“I’m not expecting ‘Bate’ to be a part of it right now,” Harbaugh said. “He had a shot, for healing purposes, a cortisone-type deal, so that’ll keep him out for a couple days. We decided to just let him keep rehabbing and make sure he’s ready to go for training camp.”
Bateman was a limited participant in the Ravens’ three weeks of voluntary organized team activities, and Harbaugh gave no indication that his readiness for training camp is in question.
The team’s 2021 first-round pick played just six games last season before electing to have surgery on his injured foot. He also missed the beginning of his rookie season because of a groin injury suffered in training camp.
Beckham, who’s coming back from a torn ACL, said he can empathize.
“I know that it’s never easy. Each injury is usually different, but it’s just about helping each other out with the mentality,” he said. “When you come back from being injured, there’s always that little bit of fear that you have to get over. You don’t want it to happen again. We haven’t talked about it as much in the room, but he was training with me … so we chopped it up about it. I think he’s headed in the right direction.”
The Ravens are hoping a healthy Bateman and a healthy Beckham will team up with first-round pick Zay Flowers to give them one of the most dynamic wide receiver groups in team history. Harbaugh said he recently stared at a picture in his basement featuring Steve Smith Sr., Torrey Smith and Jacoby Jones in Ravens uniforms.
“This group rivals that group; it might be the best,” he said. “We’ll see. That’s up to them to determine that, but I’m very excited.”
This story will be updated.
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