Harbaugh - Ravens' call on kicker job to be 'based on football' - ESPN

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — At the end of the month, the Baltimore Ravens could face a situation where kicker Justin Tucker shares the field with his potential successor Tyler Loop.

Asked how the Ravens would handle the dynamic of Tucker and Loop being in the same building, coach John Harbaugh said, «Every decision we make has to be based on football. There's a lot of layers to that. You've got a rookie kicker and here you took him in the sixth round, early in the sixth round. He's a talented guy. Just from a football standpoint — salary cap, all the different things that you just take into consideration — whatever we decide to do over the next few weeks will be based on football.»

This offseason, Tucker has been accused by 16 massage therapists of inappropriate behavior, according to the Baltimore Banner. He has twice publicly disputed the allegations.

Tucker has been at the Ravens facility the last couple of weeks kicking and working out. On Sunday, rookie sixth-round pick Loop kicked for the first time at the Ravens facility, where the team began its rookie minicamp.

The first time Tucker and Loop would practice on the same field is May 27, which is the start of Baltimore's offseason training activities.

Team officials previously said the team wouldn't make a determination on Tucker until the NFL had finished its investigation. A month later, the Ravens drafted a kicker for the first time in franchise history when they selected Loop with the No. 186 pick.

«I would just say from a standpoint of the investigation and all that, I mean we don't know anything,» Harbaugh said. «We haven't been given any information, and as it should be. It's all done the way it's done. So, we don't know anything along those lines, so we can't make