 So it was just a few days ago where the Ravens had made a few different roster moves adding some guys to the practice squad. One of the most notable names on there was Kenji Bahar who had been with the Ravens before and he was expected to come back once the Cardinals signed Trace McSorley off of Ravens practice squad. They also signed Tackle Jared Jones-Smith but then there was a third name that was very intriguing because they brought in yet another cornerback and that was Kevin Toliver and I was unaware who Kevin Toliver was I was very naive to his game and to his name and then I saw some people in the comment section like hey what's up with that cornerback received a few DMs on it too like hey anything about the cornerback you know anything about them and I didn't I didn't so I decided you know what let me look up this cornerback so he I the one thing I didn't notice he went to high school in Florida so them connections they there so he's more than welcome to be a member of the Florida Ravens so that's first and foremost but now he um so he's 6-2 went to LSU he I got it was an undrafted rookie free agent 2018 spent some time with the Bears played a little bit didn't start too much and then he spent some time with the Broncos as well so he hasn't been on the field too often but he's been in the league for a couple of years so he's been able to get that NFL coaching and I think that's one of the bigger parts about his game that I noticed from when I watched some film on him at college one of the things that I saw one of the first thing that I loved that I absolutely loved and this is something that I feel like not that it can't be taught but if you have it in college oh man it makes your transition to the NFL that much easier especially as a cornerback he is not afraid to be physical he's not afraid he is not afraid afraid to come up and hit somebody he's not afraid to come up and tackle somebody and I appreciated that about his game so much because when I watched and I didn't watch highlights I don't like watching highlights because highlights only shows the good stuff but when he's not afraid to come up and tackle a running back he's not afraid to be physical with a virus he's not afraid of that contact and that's that's half the battle right there if you play in defense that is half the battle so shout out to him for that I absolutely loved that his speed his speed wasn't too bad either now one of the things that I saw from him in college it seemed as if he struggled a bit locating the deep ball that's why I felt like it was a weakness of his in college just really tracking the ball and hey if you struggle with that in college and even if you struggle with it in the NFL that does not mean that you're gonna be a bad cornerback because I would like in it to somebody who a lot of fans feel like it's the best cornerback on the Ravens team Marlon Humphrey Marlon Humphrey that's something that Marlon Humphrey struggled with in college big time I remember the draft that the night we drafted Marlon Humphrey one of my guys who is a big big big Bama fan I was like oh man what's up with this guy who's Marlon Humphrey what was he's about and he told me a great cornerback physical cornerback loves to tackle great loves to press these wide receivers and all that but he struggles with the deep ball he struggles tracking the ball and I was like okay cool thanks for letting me know so then what happened rookie year Marlon Humphrey struggle with it sophomore year Marlon Humphrey struggle with it but even to this day Marlon Humphrey still sometimes struggles with it does that make him a bad corner no because a lot of his other characteristics have made him such a good corner overall now this year we notice you spend a little down here for Marlon Humphrey but still Marlon Humphrey is still a really good cornerback so with Kevin Toliver it just it it reminded me of that a lot now that was in college though and that now for NFL there wasn't really much film on him there but from what I did see it looked as if that had gotten better he had gotten better at tracking the ball he had gotten better at locating the ball because that's big that is that is huge because you could be the best cornerback in the world you could have a good stance you could have good speed you could have good size you could have good physicality and you could be draped all over the wide receiver like uh-uh you ain't about to burn me you ain't about to get no separation from me I'm all over it but if you can't track the ball you could be right there with the receiver all day but if you don't know what a ball is that receiver is gonna make plenty of catches whether you're there or not so the fact that his game has improved in that aspect that's big now something that we can look forward to as long as he is around on this Ravens team is the coaching when it comes to the secondary now it's like it's a little bit tricky because with Ravens they usually do a very very good job of developing their cornerbacks now one thing that they have to do better this year in my opinion is giving help to those cornerbacks and really aiding those cornerbacks especially if those cornerbacks are struggling not continuing to let them be in situations where they continue to struggle but this is not the video for that anyway um he overall is in a pretty good spot when it comes to learning as a cornerback we've seen plenty of cornerbacks over the years with the Ravens come and go who have developed very well very nicely and I expect us to continue to see that now as far as what he can do for the Ravens um he is in a very a good and a bad spot because the Ravens oh boy they have well going into the season they had so much depth in the secondary it was like oh my goodness let's go oh even all backups could be starters let's get it and then injuries of course happen now i'm recording this uh on friday november 26 um and jimmy smith he has not practiced all week anthony avert he was out last week in the bears game um due to injury taevan young he he returned to practice today so that's good and i believe he practiced in full um but my point is that and marcus peters of course been out the whole season but my point is that he may unfortunately well not unfortunately for him but unfortunately with the ravens he may get playing time a lot sooner rather than later being at the cornerback position because injuries have just taken a toll on these guys big time and we know even though they've been here for the majority of the year jimmy smith and of course taevan young taevan young he's been doing it and we've been proud of tae tae because tae tae we we know tae tae's history and it's not good when it comes to injuries so he's been we love it and we're super happy for him but we know with their history with tae van young's history with jimmy smith's history and with anthony avert in recent weeks they've been super banged up and ravens have been very short when it comes to the cornerback position so we all know that this is also a passing league so those cornerbacks are going to continue to get tested those cornerbacks the the teams are going to continue to try to take advantage of them especially if ravens the secondary is so depleted which it has been depleted all year now jeff's remake this say chris westerie he practiced for the most part today but he said he ended up leaving early so hopefully it ain't nothing serious hopefully it's just some super minor but usually fridays are the days where when they practice if you practice on friday you're usually good to go for the game on sunday so we'll see how things go but anyway my point is with all that being said unfortunately due to injury but fortunately for tallover he may get playing time sooner rather than later because we've seen it so much over the even just dating back to last year we remember remember marcus peters there was a period of time when he was dealing with it like a hamstring or something like that or that injury marlin humphrey he had been out with covid and um and i think he i think he had that with the injury last year too i believe i don't remember for sure though but anyway we saw guys like and then tayvon young he had went out uh we saw guys like uh khalil dorsey like who would have thought all right we got this guy khalil dorsey he ain't gonna get no playing time though wrong davante harris terrell bonds like these were guys who the raven signed and a lot of us were thinking like okay yeah depth special teams ah yeah that's it okay cool whatever but no no no these guys played on defense they played on defense and then the same thing with anthony avert last year too he was supposed to be more of a depth guy that would that would still get some significant playing time but still his playing your playing time goes up when the guys in front of you go down and again nfl next man up stands for not for long we already know that and raven's fans especially this year we definitely know that yikes i know that the question has been asked so many different times like man we know about next man up but how many men we got left because it's been injury after injury after injury after injury after injury so yeah those are my thoughts on uh kevin tolova so i unfortunately do not of course not against him but more so against the raven's injuries i unfortunately expect to see him sooner rather than later but hopefully we get to see him but just maybe on special teams or something because that would mean that the guys up front they're not hurt but you know like for him his family his his opportunity you never know when that opportunity could come about and what is what it's about what opportunity is about is making the most of whatever chances you're given so we'll see how it works herself out and we'll see how he ends up doing and of course teamkeeper clean if y'all know anything about kevin tolova of course like y'all always do feel free to share it in the comment section i appreciate y'all i love y'all thank you for 48 000 subscribers thank you we're 2 000 subscribers away from 50k so whenever that happens it happens no rush we vibe in i love y'all i appreciate y'all and we out