Terrell Suggs will reportedly opt to rehab his arm injury without surgery. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs will opt to rehab the injury to his arm rather than have surgery, The Baltimore Sun’s Jeff Zrebiec reported on Thursday.

Suggs made the decision after getting a second opinion recently on the arm injury, a torn right biceps he suffered on Dec. 2 in a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He sat out of the Ravens’ last two regular-season games but helped guide the team to a Super Bowl XLVII championship earlier this month.

The 30-year-old Suggs also missed the first six games of the regular season while rehabbing and recovering from a torn Achilles. He came back and played in eight games, putting up 22 tackles and two sacks in eight games.

Suggs shone in the Ravens’ AFC Divisional Playoff upset of the Denver Broncos on the road. He sacked Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning twice, forced a fumble, and had 10 tackles.

Suggs was the 2011 NFL Defensive Player of the Year.

Terrell Suggs responded to Chris Culliver on Thursday, saying the Ravens would welcome a gay teammate. (Scott Halleran/Getty Images)

As 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver found himself at the center of a firestorm over anti-gay comments on Thursday, Ravens star linebacker Terrell Suggs said he would “absolutely not” have a problem with a gay teammate.

“We wouldn’t have a problem with it,” Suggs told Pro Football Talk’s Michael David Smith. “We don’t care. Our biggest thing in the locker room is to just have fun and stay loose. We don’t really care too much about that. We’re a football team. I said it yesterday; everybody deserves a certain amount of privacy. Who cares? Whatever a person’s choice is, it’s their choice.”

Terrell Suggs reportedly surrendered nine firearms to the authorities in November. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

More information has become available in regards to the mandated collection of firearms from Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs.

According to The Baltimore Sun, Suggs handed over a total of nine firearms, including a .45-caliber pistol, a 9 mm pistol, a .454 Casull revolver, a Bushmaster rifle, two Defender 2000 rifles, and three shotguns.

The mandated surrender of the nine firearms came after a temporary protective order was granted to Candace Williams, Sugg’s ex-fiancee. The order was issued in response to Williams’ allegations that Suggs entered Williams’ car, punched her in the neck, threw her from the car, and drove away, dragging Williams along “at a high rate of speed.”

Suggs released the following statement on Friday:

“My fiancee and I have two beautiful children together whom we both love and care for tremendously.  The personal issues that the two of us have faced recently have been addressed in a responsible and adult manner and have been resolved.  I am certain that we will get through this matter and move forward as a happy family.”

The “happy family” are already split up, and the separation agreement is expected to be finalized early next week, per Williams’ lawyer.

Terrell Suggs was forced to surrender “several firearms” as part of a domestic abuse case. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs was forced to hand over “several firearms” in an ongoing domestic abuse case between Suggs and his longtime girlfriend, according to a report in The Baltimore Sun.

Suggs’ lawyer, Warren Alperstein, told the Sun that Suggs’ girlfriend and the mother of his two children, Candace Williams, had filed a court order in November.

“The guns were surrendered over to police pursuant to the court order, and they [Suggs and Williams] are resolving their issues,” Alperstein told the Sun. “All I can tell you is that he’s in rightful and lawful possession of the guns but turned them over pursuant to the requirements of the law.”

Suggs declined to comment, and it was unclear what sparked the latest court order. Police received two 911 calls from the Suggs’ household on Nov. 21, but they did not take reports.

This is not the first incident between Suggs and Williams, who was once his fiance.

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs has a torn biceps, ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter reported via Twitter Monday night. But Suggs will receive a second opinion to determine the extent of the injury and if it will cost him any playing time.

Terrell Suggs has torn biceps. Doctors say there are some torn biceps players can play through, others they can’t. Thus, 2nd opinion needed.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 4, 2012

Waiting on 2nd opinion. Will keep ya’ll posted. Don’t panic! We do this every year! The MISSION is still the same. #NawlinsInFebruary

— terrell suggs (@untouchablejay4) December 4, 2012

Schefter added that Suggs is “expected to miss some time,” but that it would not be season-ending.

Suggs suffered the injury in the fourth quarter of the Ravens’ 23-20 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. It’s the second setback for Suggs this season. Earlier this year, he made a surprisingly quick return to the Ravens’ lineup after an offseason Achilles tear.

Once originally thought to have suffered a season-ending injury, the Ravens’ Ray Lewis could return by Week 15. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis could make what was once an unthinkable return to the field by Week 15, after the team initially determined he would miss the rest of the season with a torn triceps.

Yahoo Sports’ Michael Silver, citing more than six sources, reported Monday that Lewis could come back in as little as three weeks, when the Ravens are set for a showdown at home with the Denver Broncos.

“At the end of the day, you’re gonna see Ray Lewis again,” linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo told Yahoo’s Silver. “For the greatest player in Ravens history to be able to return from this injury and come on this championship run with us? When he was said to be down and out? Man, that’s critical mass. When he comes through that tunnel, that’s gonna be the earthquake and the tsunami.”

Lewis, Ravens coach John Harbaugh and general manager Ozzie Newsome wouldn’t outwardly confirm Silver’s report. But they did offer speculative hints like “stay tuned” and that it was “possible.”

Lewis originally suffered the injury in an October victory over the Dallas Cowboys, during which the Ravens also lost cornerback Lardarius Webb for the season with a torn ACL. Silver, citing a source close to Lewis, reported that he is undergoing a form of platelet-rich plasma therapy to treat the triceps injury.

The Ravens have won four consecutive games and are three games ahead of their closest challengers in the AFC North. They sit one game back of the Houston Texans for the AFC’s best record.

Lewis had 57 tackles in six games before suffering the injury. And as the team’s unquestioned leader, his return would provide a huge boost for a Ravens team that once faced the prospect of playing the rest of the season without three of its biggest defensive stars. Linebacker Terrell Suggs, who was originally thought to be out for the year after an Achilles injury, returned in late October.

Baltimore’s Terrell Suggs said on Friday he’s looking forward to a “good, old-fashioned alley fight” against the Pittsburgh Steelers this Sunday.

This week’s Sunday Night Football game is the infamous Baltimore-Pittsburgh rivalry. Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs said on Friday that the two teams are so similar, hence the competition.

“It’s a good, old-fashioned alley fight. You need a good one of those every now and then. This is why the two teams don’t like each other, because we’re so similar,” Suggs said. “If you look down the line in their team and our team, it’s pretty similar. So, it means a lot.”

Both teams are missing key players in this week’s game: the Ravens won’t have Ray Lewis or Lardarius Webb, and the Steelers will be missing safety Troy Polamalu and starting QB Ben Roethlisberger. Big Ben’s replacement, Byron Leftwich, hasn’t started a game in three years.

“Byron is not Ben,” offensive coordinator Todd Haley admitted. “It’s very important that we and he understand that. He can’t go out there trying to be Ben. He needs to go out there and be Byron.”

Despite the absence of key players, Suggs maintains that the game will be something to see. The “old-fashioned alley fight” has high stakes for the two AFC North teams, and the intense physicality of both will show on the field.

“This is why you play football, for games like this. You remember some games, but these are the games that you tell your grandkids about. You know, when we go down to Heinz Field and you see the towels, and you see the colors, you know you’re in a fight. … As soon as we walk in their stadium, they’re going to lock the gates. But that’s what we want. We definitely want them to lock the gates behind us so we can get in there and we can have it out.”

Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs was activated to the active roster and is expected to play Sunday against the Houston Texans. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs was activated to the team’s roster on Saturday and will play Sunday against the Houston Texans, reports ESPN.com.

Suggs, the reigning AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year, tore his Achilles in late April during an offseason workout and was placed on the physically unable to perform list in late August, meaning he couldn’t play in the team’s first six games.

“He’s coming off a very serious injury, an Achilles tear. We’ll just see how he does,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said earlier this week.

The Ravens are already without the services of linebacker Ray Lewis, who tore his right triceps and cornerback Lardarius Webb who tore the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his left knee. Both players are out of the rest of the season.

Terrell Suggs is shooting for a return to game action on Sunday against the Texans. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs is expecting to play Sunday in Houston against the Texans just days after returning to practice after being out since April with a torn right Achilles tendon, according to a report Thursday morning from ESPN NFL analyst Adam Schefter:

But more and more it’s looking like there’s a real chance, maybe a better than real chance, that Suggs will make his season debut Sunday.

Schefter also offered up the note that Suggs’ family and friends are making the trip to Houston in anticipation of his return to the field. But Schefter also said that Suggs has put on considerable weight during his time away from game-action and might need more than a few days to return to form.

Though Ravens head coach John Harbaugh has remained mum on a timetable for Suggs’ return, Schefter reported that many sources believe the earliest he would return is November. Suggs, the 2011 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, is reportedly at the Ravens training facility today, one day after returning to his first practice since the injury. The team will be without its other star linebacker, Ray Lewis, who went down with a torn triceps in a win against the Dallas Cowboys Oct. 14 and is expected to miss the rest of the season.

Baltimore will be getting its outside linebacker back soon. Terrell Suggs will practice with the team today, marking his official removal from the PUP list:

Terrell Suggs will practice today, meaning he's coming off the PUP list.

—
Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) October 17, 2012

Suggs has been out since he had a surgery in May to repair his right Achilles tendon. He racked up a career total of 82.5 sacks with the Ravens, including 14 last season. This year, the team has accumulated only 10 sacks in 6 games without him. The Ravens need Suggs back on defense, especially after losing Ray Lewis to a torn triceps and Lardarius Webb to a torn ACL.

The reigning Defensive Player of the Year is on schedule for recovery, as he was expected to return to practice around late October or early November:

“He’s got his target date,” Harbaugh said in late September. “He’s doing well. The main thing we want to do now is make sure there’s no setback and he continues to get in shape and continues to get stronger.”

There’s no word yet on when Suggs will start in games.

Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs’ injury could keep him out longer than some anticipated. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs could remain out with an ACL injury until November, The Baltimore Sun’s Aaron Wilson reported. Wilson’s report, which cites a league source with knowledge of Suggs’ situation, stands in contrast to other reports that pegged his possible return as coming when the Ravens take on the Houston Texans on Oct. 21.

From Wilson’s report:

The source refuted reports that Suggs was aiming toward that game, characterizing it as unrealistic he would be ready or that the Ravens would risk a setback by allowing him to play. The source added it’s far too soon to know exactly when the NFL Defensive Player of the Year will return from a surgically repaired partially torn right Achilles tendon.

Suggs was placed on the physically unable to perform list before the season, so the Texans game would be the first he could possibly return.

Suggs led the Ravens — and finished tied for fifth in the NFL — with 14 sacks last season. The Ravens have missed Suggs, as their defense sits only 24th in the NFL in yards per game allowed.

Witnesses say Ravens LB Terrell Suggs hurt his Achilles playing basketball, not during a conditioning test. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

Baltimore Ravens All-Pro linebacker Terrell Suggs is fighting a game of he said-she said in reference to how he tore his Achilles tendon.  ESPN is reporting they have talked to several witnesses at a Glendale, Ariz., gym where Suggs played in a basketball tournament. They say that’s where Suggs got injured.

Reports are that there was a collision and Suggs possibly stepped on someone’s foot causing the injury.

“I was watching SportsCenter, and they said he did it during a conditioning test, and I said, ‘What? What’s going on here?’ ” staff member Adam Bowman told ESPN. “And then to lie about it … “

“Simply not true. I hurt myself doing my conditioning test,” Suggs told ESPN through his agent.

Suggs, the 2011 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, has 82 career sacks in his nine-year career and is expected to miss a majority of the 2012 season with the injury.

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs has won the AP Defensive Player of the Year Award, according to the team’s Twitter account.

Congratulations to #Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs for being named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year

—
Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) February 05, 2012

Suggs, 29, accumulated 70 tackles, 14.0 sacks, seven forced fumbles and two interceptions this season for Baltimore.

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and outside linebacker Terrell Suggs will not be participating in the Pro Bowl game this Sunday, according to a  tweet from the Baltimore Ravens.

#Ravens RB Ray Rice and OLB Terrell Suggs are not participating in the Pro Bowl. Suggs is due to injury

—
Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) January 24, 2012

Suggs, who had 70 tackles and two  interceptions this season, will not be participating as a result of an injury obtained in the AFC Championship game. It is unclear why Rice, who had 291 attempts earning 1,364 yards and scoring 12 touchdowns, will not participate in the game.

The Ravens, who finished the season 12-4-0, falling short of a chance at a Super Bowl berth had eight players selected to participate in the game this Sunday in Honolulu; LB Ray Lewis, S Ed Reed, OLB Terrell Suggs, DT Haloti Ngata, RB Ray Rice, FB Vonta Leach, G Marshal Yanda and G Ben Grubbs.