Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said he changed Friday's schedule, from a full practice to a walkthrough, so the players would be ready for Saturday's scrimmage.
Harbaugh felt the players were emotionally drained from Thursday's social justice meetings and physically fatigued from the series of padded practices.
"You make every decision about what's best for the team and it was clearly best for the team to go into an in-season schedule," Harbaugh said Friday.
Harbaugh indicated the Ravens' comprehensive statement on social justice came from a 2 1/2-hour meeting on Thursday afternoon.
"By the end of the day, I was surprised how emotionally spent I was and how everybody was," Harbaugh said.