"KEMO" RETURNS TO BALTIMORE

By Joe Platania

Now that the league has released dates for all the teams' mandatory minicamps and voluntary organized team activities (OTAs), we can provide a further update of the NFL's and Ravens' offseason calendar.

The training camp opening and closing dates listed below are based on head coach John Harbaugh's previous camp patterns. He has always begun camp on a Monday and ended it just two days before the second preseason game.

Like other teams, Baltimore is still trying to acquire players to reach the 90-man roster limit, a change from the 80-man maximum that was waived because of last year's lockout.

One addition was made Thursday, when defensive tackle Ma'ake Kemoeatu was re-signed by the same team that promoted him to the 53-man active roster as an undrafted rookie in 2002.

Kemoeatu, brother of Pittsburgh Steelers guard Chris Kemoeatu, also played for Carolina and Washington, but was out of football last year. He is the 85th player on the Ravens' roster and is likely to be penciled in as a backup nose guard to third-year Alabama product Terrence Cody.

Kemoeatu was the Redskins' representative at the Ed Block Courage Awards banquet two years ago.

UPDATED OFFSEASON/REGULAR-SEASON CALENDAR
(all dates subject to change)

May 11-13 -- Rookie minicamp, Owings Mills training facility
May 21-23 -- NFL Spring Owners' Meeting, Atlanta
May 22-24 -- Three-day OTA No. 1, Owings Mills training facility
May 29-31 -- Three-day OTA No. 2, Owings Mills training facility

June 1 -- Final day tender offers can be made to unrestricted free agents for exclusive negotiating rights
June 4-7 -- Three-day OTA No. 3, Owings Mills training facility
June 12-14 -- MANDATORY FULL-TEAM MINICAMP, Owings Mills training facility
June 15 -- Deadline for old teams to withdraw original qualifying offer to unrestricted free agents and maintain exclusive negotiating rights with submitted tender of 110 percent of previous year's salary
June 24-30 -- NFL Rookie Symposium; Aurora, Ohio

Mid-July (date TBA) -- NFL Supplemental Draft
July 15 -- Deadline for designated franchise free agents to sign multi-year extensions (After this date, players can sign only one-year contracts and cannot sign extensions until after teams' last regular-season games)
July 22 -- Veteran free-agent signing period ends here, or first scheduled day of the first NFL training camp, whichever is later
July 30 -- RAVENS' TRAINING CAMP OPENS, Owings Mills training facility

Aug. 1 -- Deadline for under-contract players to report to earn a season of free-agency credit; unsigned rookies acquired during the draft that have not signed by this date may not be traded to another club in 2012
Aug. 4 -- Hall of Fame Class of 2012 Induction Ceremony; Fawcett Stadium; Canton, Ohio
Aug. 5 -- Hall of Fame Game; Fawcett Stadium; Canton, Ohio; Arizona Cardinals vs. New Orleans Saints; 8 p.m. (NFL Network)
Aug. 9 -- PRESEASON GAME No. 1: Ravens at Atlanta Falcons, 7:30 p.m., Georgia Dome (Comcast SportsNet, WBAL-TV Plus)
Aug. 15 -- Ravens' training camp phase ends; practices resume at Owings Mills training complex

Aug. 17 -- PRESEASON GAME No. 2: Detroit Lions at Ravens, 8 p.m., M&T Bank Stadium (WBFF-TV)
Aug. 23 -- PRESEASON GAME No. 3: Jacksonville Jaguars at Ravens, 7 p.m., M&T Bank Stadium (Comcast SportsNet, WBAL-TV)
Aug. 28 -- Roster cut-down deadline to maximum of 75 players (4 p.m. ET)
Aug. 30 -- PRESEASON GAME No. 4: Ravens at St. Louis Rams, 8 p.m., Edward Jones Dome (Comcast SportsNet, WBAL-TV)

Sept. 1 -- Roster cut-down deadline to maximum of 53 players (6 p.m. ET)
Sept. 2 -- Teams may begin to establish eight-man practice squads at noon ET.
Sept. 5 -- 93RD NFL REGULAR SEASON BEGINS, Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants, 8:30 p.m. (NBC)
Sept. 10 -- RAVENS OPENER: Cincinnati Bengals at Ravens, 7 p.m., M&T Bank Stadium (ESPN)

Oct. 16 -- Trading period ends at 4 p.m. (ET)

Nov. 15 -- Signing deadline for unrestricted and restricted free agents who were tendered a qualifying offer before June 1; signing deadline for transition and franchise free agents who remained unsigned by another club
Nov. 18 -- Week Eleven; Sunday-night flex scheduling begins

Dec. 30 -- Final regular-season games: Ravens at Cincinnati Bengals, 1 p.m., Paul Brown Stadium (CBS)
Dec. 31 -- Teams may begin signing their own free-agent players for 2013 season

Jan. 5-6 -- Wild Card Weekend (NBC, CBS, Fox)
Jan. 12-13 -- Divisional Playoff Round (CBS, Fox)
Jan. 20 -- NFC Championship Game, teams TBA, 3 p.m. (Fox); AFC Championship Game, teams TBA, 6:40 p.m. (CBS)
Jan. 27 -- 43rd AFC-NFC Pro Bowl; Aloha Stadium, Honolulu; 7 p.m. (NBC)

Feb. 3 -- SUPER BOWL XLVII; AFC Champion vs. NFC Champion; Mercedes-Benz Superdome; New Orleans, La.; 6:30 p.m. (CBS)

Posted May 3, 2012