Defensive Tackle · Baltimore Ravens

Nnamdi Madubuike

No. 92 · 7th season

Madubuike is cleared. Now everyone remembers what they've been missing.

A neck injury has a way of making everything else feel small. In Week 2 of last season, Nnamdi Madubuike went down, and that was it — the rest of the year went on without him.

Madubuike is a defensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, the kind of player a defense is built around without most casual fans ever knowing his name. When someone like that disappears for most of a season, the absence is felt in ways that don't show up anywhere obvious.

He's been working his way back on the physically-unable-to-perform list — a designation that means a player is on the roster but not yet cleared to practice or play. That wait is over. He's been cleared to return.

For the Ravens, getting Madubuike back is the kind of roster news that quietly changes a lot. A healthy defensive line looks different than a patched one, and this one has been without a key piece for a long time.

The neck injury put everything on hold. Now the question is how quickly he picks up where he left off — and whether the Ravens' defense starts to feel like itself again.

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