Terrell Suggs is now expected to return earlier than once thought as he recovers from his Achilles tendon injury.

Suggs, who was the 2011 Defensive Player of the Year, would be eligible to return as early as Week 7.

"He has his target date,” Baltimore Ravens' head coach John Harbaugh said, without sharing the specific date. "He is doing well. The main thing we want to do now is make sure there is no setback, and he continues to get in shape and continues to get stronger.”

Suggs previously said that he could be back in October and no later than November.

"Football shape will be a factor,” Harbaugh said. "As soon as he gets on the field, it’s not like he is going to be back to Defensive Player of the Year form. We need to all understand that. Just give him a little space and let him kind of grow into this thing.”