Baltimore Ravens pay hefty price for violating offseason rules

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If teams weren’t clear about how serious the NFL takes offseason rules, there is no longer any gray area after how the league punished the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday.

The Ravens were forced to cancel a week of organized team activities and received a collective fine of $480,280 ($343,057 for the team and $137,223 for coach John Harbaugh). This is for what one Ravens source said amounted to five minutes of players wearing pads at a recent rookie minicamp.

Compare that to the Seattle Seahawks, who were fined less than the Ravens (a total of $300,000 for the Seahawks) and had one fewer offseason day forfeited despite a more …

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