Ravens cut Keydrick Vincent

<span class="story-detail1">Heard he was on the bubble, youth wasn't the total reason. He hadn't been playing well since he got here.</span></p>

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OWINGS MILLS -- Baltimore Ravens guard Keydrick Vincent said Tuesday morning that general manager Ozzie Newsome informed him he has been cut from the roster. </span>

<span class="story-detail2">"They said they were going with younger players and wanted to give me a chance to start somewhere else," Vincent said in a telephone interview. "Ozzie said they had tried to trade me, but nothing worked out. I'm going to go home and weigh my options.

"I wanted to be on this team, but I will have to move on. It's one of those things where it's out of your hands. It's business."

Vincent, 29, was due to make $1.6 million this season and had been demoted from the starting lineup at right guard and shifted to the left side behind Jason Brown.

If Vincent had been on the team after the final roster cutdown this weekend, as a vested veteran his salary for the year would have been guaranteed.

However, money wasn't the only reason the team has cut ties with Vincent.

Although Vincent had recovered from offseason sports hernia surgery, the team was instituting a youth movement with first-round pick Ben Grubbs and former second-round pick Chris Chester competing for the right guard job.

"They think these young guys are ready, so they're going with them this year," Vincent said. "I was pretty surprised, but, like I said, the NFL is a business. I think it goes deeper than them drafting someone in the first round. That's just how I feel."

Vincent signed a three-year contract in 2004 after starting one season for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but injuries and a slow adjustment to the Ravens' system curtailed his progress in Baltimore.</span></p>

 

Anyone else think he ends up in Arizona?

 

Now that you mention it, it would make sense with Grimm being there now. And Vincent playedpretty wellhis last yr as a Steeler. Cards could also use all the help in the world on their OL, too.

 

So who's going to take the spot at RG right now? Chris Chester or Ben Grubbs?

 

Right now, itlooks likeChester.Buteither one of them weregonna start over Vincent had he not been cut. He was demoted a while back.</p>