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Jamison Hensley
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Per week after releasing seven-time Professional Bowl kicker Justin Tucker, the Baltimore Ravens added competitors for his potential substitute.
On Monday, the Ravens signed undrafted Wyoming rookie John Hoyland after a tryout final week. He’ll battle sixth-round decide Tyler Loop to be Baltimore’s kicker this season.
The Ravens launched Tucker on Could 5, saying it was a soccer choice. Tucker is being investigated by the NFL after 16 therapeutic massage therapists from high-end spas and wellness facilities accused him of inappropriate conduct, in response to the Baltimore Banner.
Hoyland missed solely twice in 54 profession makes an attempt from underneath 40 yards. Final season, three of his 4 misses had been from 50 yards or longer.
He’s seeking to comply with within the footsteps of Tucker, who went undrafted in 2012, was signed after a tryout after which gained Baltimore’s kicking job. Tucker then turned essentially the most correct kicker in NFL historical past (89.1%).
Hoyland should beat out Loop, who’s the primary kicker to be drafted by the Ravens. Loop transformed 6 of 9 makes an attempt from 50-plus yards in his school profession at Arizona, together with a 62-yarder final season.
After the primary day of rookie minicamp final week, Ravens coach John Harbaugh praised Loop and Hoyland, saying, “Each kickers, I assumed, seemed actually good at the moment. So, we bought them on the market behind the road with the snap and every thing, and I feel they made all of them, did not they? In order that’s good to see. It is a good begin that manner.”
In transferring on from Tucker, the Ravens will depend on a brand new kicker for the primary time in 14 years.
