The Baltimore Ravens were already excited with second-round pick Courtney Upshaw. But with LB Terrell Suggs tearing his Achilles’ tendon Thursday, the team will count on the Alabama product even more than expected.

Part of what makes the Ravens-Steelers rivalry one of the best in football — other than the games, of course — is the amount of talk that goes on between players, mostly through the media. And with no football to talk about, we’ll take whatever material we can get.

Ravens LB Terrell Suggs poses for a portrait in the NFL Network Studio on April 15 in Culver City, CA. Click on the photo to see who else has visited NFL Network.

As one of the more fun-loving players in the NFL, you never know what Ravens OLB Terrell Suggs will say in an interview. We got a chance to sit down with him during a visit to NFL Network studios Friday and talked about a number of things, including the new Arizona State uniforms, his teammate Tom Zbikowski’s boxing career, and his rival Hines Ward’s performance on “Dancing with the Stars.”

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs autographs a football for a fan during AFC media day at the Pro Bowl.

Ravens OLB Terrell Suggs was moments from doing an interview with Marshall Faulk, and he was ready to show off his biceps.

With all of the trash talk between rivals this week (OK, maybe it’s just the Jets), don’t think Terrell Suggs was going to be left out of the fun.

In the end, it turns out Terrell Suggs gave his Pro Bowl vote to Tom Brady after all.

Terrell Suggs believes Drew Brees, who often falls to third in the debate over who holds the title as the NFL’s best quarterback, is better than both Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.