It seems every year during the first couple days of training camp a big name star goes down with an injury that ends their season. Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh who has an extra game to work with because of the Hall of Fame game is using a different approach this season to try and avoid that.

Harbaugh is taking it really easy on some of the veteran players like Joe Flacco, Terrell Suggs and Eric Weddle and not having them fully participate in practice until after the first weekend of camp.

Harbaugh has also offered up a suggestion to the league that could cut down on injuries that usually occur at the start of training camp.

“Acclimation is very important,” Harbaugh said via Jamison Hensley of ESPN. “If we could get a week instead of two days — not to push it back so we have a shorter time to get our guys ready for football — to put in front of training camp where we can get our guys ramped up for the collisions and hard movements, maybe we would avoid some of those first two- to three-day injuries that we get during training camp. That’s our goal this year.”

Most teams have players report one day and then practices start the next but with Harbaugh's idea there would be a few days of just conditioning and getting the body right before jumping into the practices.

That seems like a good idea on paper but with teams already getting less practice time with the players telling some coaches that there might even be less practice time now would be a hard pill to swallow. There is also no guarantee that players wouldn't get injured in the days before the start of training camp.