Getty ImagesBryant McKinnie won’t be down to his ideal playing weight in time for Sunday’s opener with the Steelers, but he’s getting closer.
McKinnie has dropped 10 pounds since signing with the Ravens, leaving him right around 360 two days before the season gets underway. He’s down 27 pounds since weighing in 387 pounds when he was cut by the Vikings last month. McKinnie told Aaron Wilson of the Carroll County Times that he would like to get down to his old college weight of 343 pounds this season, although he has played about 10-15 pounds heavier throughout his NFL career.
“I lost 10 since I got here,” McKinnie said. “That’s definitely helping out a lot and I continue to lose a few more. I got my old college number back [No. 78], so I’m trying to get back to my old college weight. I’m in the 360s.”
Losing the weight is just part of what McKinnie needs to accomplish to provide the Ravens with the kind of play they’re hoping for after signing the veteran left tackle during training camp. He also needs to learn the playbook and develop a rapport with his teammates. McKinnie said that left guard Ben Grubbs is helping on that front, but acknowledged that it will take him a few weeks before he feels totally comfortable in his new surroundings.
Taken together, the weight and unfamiliarity with the offense figures to make for a long afternoon for McKinnie against the Steelers defense.
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hell do fine, remember the Steelers D is soooooooo old, blah blah….
James is living his chops!
Tiki Barber – “I can play tackle too!!”
Bryant McKinnie’s getting thinner
…and Leon’s getting laaaaarger!
If he’d just put on weight instead of losing it, he could have saved the Ravens a roster spot by playing tackle AND guard…
Wild Snorlax appeared!
Baltimore Buffet’s are going out of business cuz Mt. McKinnie aint givn dem da bizznezz.
Ravens are gonna win Sunday, hope you enjoy the show
Once Bryant found out his teammate was Grubbs, not Grub, and stopped trying to rip off his drumsticks at the dinner table, the two got along famously.
Watch your blind side Flacco, Bryant ended Favre’s career (you can read that as good or bad).
Im sure the chap will play a spendid game . I mean Harrisons back isnt heathly so he wont have the power to push him . Ohhh wait James has speed too . Opps .
his turnstile will just spin quicker as de’s go around him
He’ll need to do something. He was overrated dead weight for the Vikings.
RIP Flacco
27 lbs in a month… that can’t be healthy. I know his job is on the line but I hope the dude is taking the weight off in a safe way
Down 27 lbs? Must have found some Starcaps.
He shouldve done the opposite and gained just a few extra pounds so it would takes James 5 minutes to run around his wide butt
I think he will do better than Oher did at LT and he will have a much better game than Jake Scott will vs Suggs.
Holding #78.
Anyone have the over/under if he makes it to 50?
I’d like the NFL to add diabetic/early death rates for obese linemen to their concussion studies.
387 pounds?
Damn!
Heck most of that 10 lb weight loss was from a burp. Wait til he really goes on a diet.
that’s a big boy!
I will never understand situations like this, he comes into Minny out of shape and over weight, My guess is he knew he was going to be playing football when he left the Viking locker room in December. Now he says he lost 10 pounds and is trying to get down to the 340′s. shouldn’t that have been the plan all along. Unbelievable!!!
What kind of money did he lose, by being cut from The Vikings?
harmcityhomer
the difference is it doesnt matter how big of a game suggs has, but if james has a huge game flacco will be a deer in headlights
Other than perhaps the Jets, has any team (or its fans) ever talked so much despite winning so little? The Steelers have owned the Ravens over the last 10 years and that’s unlikely to change this year. Quote the Ravens nevermore!
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Starcaps is a diuretic – not a weight loss supplement.
he’ll do just fine ….
Harrison sacks on Flacco ZERO
Suggs sacks on Ben TWELVE
387 has to be the biggest lineman in the NFL
A guy that big shouldn’t have any problem dropping 27 pounds in that short of time, especially when he’s grossly overweight.