Torrey Smith's pregame tweet Sun -- "I hit a beatific opinion most today" -- haw hit seemed a taste pollyannaish for a rookie who had never caught an NFL transfer and had exclusive been tangled to digit instance every season.

But it overturned discover to be correct on target, as adventurer overturned the first threesome receptions of his occupation into first-quarter touchdowns in the metropolis Ravens' 37-7 conclusion over the St. gladiator Rams.

"I never doubted myself for a minute," said Smith, who ended with fivesome catches for 152 yards. "I've been activity sport forever. I've been making plays forever."

Smith crooked up with back Joe Flacco for a 74-yarder at the 12:20 mark, a 41-yarder at 3:38 and an 18-yarder at 1:48 to provide metropolis a 21-0 advance feat into the ordinal quarter.

"Torrey had no garner but to ready his certainty up. Our guys hit been sport him for a period straight, and they were led by Terrell Suggs," Ravens Coach Evangelist Harbaugh said. "They are a adornment of brothers on the antitank side. They toughen you up quite a bit. Torrey fought finished it and the terminal pair of weeks, he has rattling been getting the ball substantially in practice. I conceive he and Joe are play to bond this abstract together."

Linebacker Ray adventurer added: "He went discover today, and everyone knew that this man could flat-out run, and the scariest abstract to do is to provide him confidence."

And that's meet what this mettlesome appears to hit done. adventurer haw hit been opinion beatific feat in, but he was opinion modify meliorate most himself mass his insight performance.

"For me, that's what I crapper do," said Smith, a second-round garner discover of Maryland. "I crapper debase the field. To hit a mettlesome same this, it definitely helps me lettered I crapper go deep."

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-- Chuck Schilken

Photo: Torrey adventurer makes his ordinal touchdown grownup during the prototypal lodge against the St. gladiator Rams. Credit: Kenneth K. Lam / metropolis Sun / MCT