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Ravens OT Bryant McKinnie Says He'll Win His Starting Job Back

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Bryant McKinnie is confident that he'll get his left tackle job back. He feels healthy enough to play right now and he says that despite all the attention being paid to his conditioning, he's nearly 20 pounds lighter than he was when he was signed by the Ravens late in training camp last year. However, the 10-year veteran admits he is concerned with how much his weight fluctuates and he'll see a specialist Monday in an attempt to get a better understanding of why it is happening. "I think it's my metabolism," McKinnie said following the Ravens' open practice Saturday at M&T Bank Stadium. "I don't know how to diagnose it until I find out on Monday. It's just to better help me with my whole weight thing because this wasn't an issue my whole career until about three years ago, in '09. I think there's kind of like an imbalance or something maybe that is going on with metabolism. We're going to try and work on it."

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