Ravens' Breshad Perriman trying to overcome habit of dropping passes

The knock on freakishly talented Baltimore Ravens rookie wide receiver Breshad Perriman is that he drops too many passes.

Throughout his first offseason, Perriman has struggled to change the perception that his hands are a weakness, dropping four passes during a particularly bad practice. The UCF product is looking to secure a starting job in September and knows he needs to get past his mental hiccups in order to do so.

"I really just talk to myself," Perriman told Aaron Wilson of The Baltimore Sun at the end of June. "It's really all mental. I talk to myself, tell myself the things that I need to do to complete those passes and just try to step it up a notch more."

Lacking depth at the position behind Steve Smith, Perriman may inherit a starting job anyways with Kamar Aiken, Marlon Brown, and Michael Campanaro as his only competition. But Perriman knows worrying about whether he'll be starting is not a productive exercise.

"It's a goal of mine, but at the same time, it's not really on my mind," Perriman said. "I'm just really trying to focus on getting better every day, just going out there, take it day by day and see how it plays out ... For the most part, I just try to come out and compete and work on craft, the little things I need to work on to make me become a good receiver."

Ravens receivers coach Bobby Engram loves what he sees out of Perriman so far, impressed by the work ethic of the son of former Detroit Lions wide receiver Brett Perriman.

"He's a worker," Engram said. "On the field, we just keep working the fundamentals, getting in and out of breaks, transitioning, tracking the ball, being aggressive back to the ball - all the things he's working on since he started playing receiver."