The Ravens have made their choice for a player to return from injured reserve this season.
The team announced on Tuesday that it will be safety Matt Elam, who was placed on injured reserve after injuring his knee and having surgery in the preseason. He is practicing with the team on Tuesday and Baltimore will have three weeks before they’ll have to add him to the 53-man roster or lose him for the rest of the year.
Elam, the team’s 2013 first-round pick, has not played in a regular season game since the 2014 season. He missed all of last season with a biceps injury and will have the extra time provided by the bye week to get back up to speed.
The Ravens have suffered several injuries in the secondary over the course of the season and placed safety Kendrick Lewis on injured reserve last week. Lardarius Webb also left last Sunday’s loss to the Jets with a hamstring injury.