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Ravens' Pitta optimistic about playing this season

Published May. 15, 2015 12:06 p.m. ET

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Dennis Pitta is optimistic that he can make it back to the field this season after suffering a devastating hip injury last season.

Pitta went down without being touched in Week 3 against Cleveland when he suffered a dislocated and fractured right hip for the second straight year. Doubts immediately crept in about whether he'd ever even play again, but not for Pitta. 

"I knew I would make an attempt to come back," Pitta told the team's official website. "This is what I love to do. Injuries are part of this game and you have to try to overcome them the best you can. You always want to leave this game on your own terms."

The Ravens drafted two tight ends as insurance, including second-rounder Maxx Williams, who was the consensus No. 1 at the position in this year's rookie pool.

Still, Pitta believes he can make it back, despite the fear that he could re-injure the hip a third time. 

"I’m optimistic," Pitta said. "I feel good. But obviously it’s a process. I have an idea in mind of where I’d like to be in a couple months, but at the same time you don’t know. I know what it felt like to do this one time. I’ve never known what it felt like to do it twice.”

The hip is 100 percent healed, but Pitta isn't close to being back in football shape. Doctors are allowing him to push as much as he can handle. 

"Even for them, this is uncharted waters,” Pitta said of his medical team. "It’s not scary. I just don't really know what to expect. I don’t know how my body is going to respond."

As for his expectations for 2015? "I hope to be out there playing – at a high level," Pitta said.

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