Welcome to the Ravens’ free-agency tracker, which can most likely be updated all via the offseason.
As of the start of the NFL’s new league yr on March 15 at 4 p.m., teams can formally announce signings and trades. Right here’s a rundown of who the Ravens have agreed to sign, who they’ve misplaced and who’s nonetheless on the open market:
Free agent additions
Defensive type out Angelo Blackson: The Ravens added depth to their line of protection on Could 24 with the signing of the 30-year-old Blackson, who spent the ultimate two seasons with the Chicago Bears, the place he carried out in 32 video video games, 12 of them begins.
The 6-foot-4, 315-pound Blackson had 22 tackles in 15 video video games last season. He had a career-high 43 tackles and a pair of 1/2 sacks in 2021.
Blackson, a fourth-round select by the Tennessee Titans in 2015, moreover had stints with the Houston Texans and Arizona Cardinals. In coming to Baltimore, he reunites with Ravens line of protection coach Anthony Weaver, who coached him in Houston.
Quarterback Josh Johnson: The 37-year-old free agent quarterback has signed with the Ravens, the group launched Could 22. Johnson has carried out for an NFL-record 14 teams and this marks his third time with the Ravens.
A fifth-round choose of San Diego by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008, he carried out for Baltimore in 2021 and was on the roster in the midst of the 2016 offseason sooner than being launched that September. He moreover presents Baltimore a veteran presence in its quarterback room and may compete with Tyler Huntley, Anthony Brown and undrafted free agent Nolan Henderson for a backup place behind Lamar Jackson, who earlier this month signed a five-year extension worth a reported $260 million.
Johnson has started 9 video video games in his NFL career, though teams have been merely 1-8 with him on the helm.
Heart Sam Mustipher: The Ravens have been and never utilizing a backup coronary heart since Trystan Colon bolted for the New York Jets in free firm this offseason, nonetheless they’ve now stuffed that vacancy with Mustipher.
Mustipher, who spent his first three years with the Chicago Bears, signed a reported one-year maintain the group Could 15. It’s moreover a homecoming for the 26-year-old, who grew up in Owings Mills and starred at Our Woman of Good Counsel Excessive Faculty in Olney sooner than going to Notre Dame.
Undrafted out of Notre Dame in 2019, Mustipher surprisingly grew to change into the Bears’ coronary heart late inside the 2020 season, starting the ultimate six video video games of the yr. The next season, he started all 17 nonetheless struggled, with a Professional Soccer Focus grade of merely 51 for 2021. Although he improved last season, incomes a 63.4 mark from PFF, Mustipher was at best inconsistent, considerably collectively together with his transfer blocking. He was larger collectively together with his run blocking, nonetheless, incomes a 65.5 grade from PFF for a Bears offensive line that had the seventh-best run blocking grade inside the league in 2022.
Huge receiver Tarik Black: The Ravens added to their receiving corps on April 19, signing Black after he joined their comply with squad in January.
Undrafted out of Texas in 2021, the 25-year-old has appeared in a single NFL sport, with the Jets in 2022. He caught one transfer for 10 yards in New York after spending his rookie season on the Colts’ comply with squad.
The 6-foot-3, 217-pound receiver began his faculty career at Michigan sooner than transferring in 2020 to Texas, the place he had 10 catches for 240 yards and a touchdown in six video video games.
Huge receiver Odell Beckham Jr.: The Ravens made their best splash of the offseason so far on Easter Sunday with the signing of Beckham, a 30-year-old two-time All-Professional and three-time Professional Bowl selection.
The deal is for one yr and $15 million, with $13.835 million of that coming inside the kind of a signing bonus and $1.165 million in base wage and Beckham would possibly make as a lot as $3 million further in incentives, primarily based on quite a few tales.
Beckham’s addition is a much-needed improve on quite a few fronts. He joins a receiving corps that ranked last inside the NFL in receiving yards in three of the ultimate 4 years. He moreover has relationship with Jackson, one factor that may go an important distance in direction of the group smoothing points over with Jackson, who last month requested to be traded 5 days sooner than the Ravens gave him a nonexclusive franchise tag that he has however to sign.
There are questions on Beckham’s effectively being, nonetheless. He missed all of ultimate season whereas recovering from a torn ACL, the second of his career, and he hasn’t carried out in a sport since Tremendous Bowl 56 in February 2022. When healthful, though, he has confirmed to be certainly one of many league’s larger receivers. In 2021, he obtained a 76.5 grade from Professional Soccer Focus after catching 48 passes for 593 yards and seven touchdowns in 12 video video games. Over the course of eight years inside the league, which included stints with the New York Giants and Cleveland Browns, Beckham has 531 career catches for 7,367 yards and 56 touchdowns.
Linebacker Kristian Welch: A 24-year-old linebacker who carried out almost utterly on specific teams last season, Welch re-signed with Baltimore on April 8, primarily based on ESPN’s Subject Yates. He was an unrestricted free agent who wasn’t tendered by the Ravens.
Welch, who signed with Baltimore as an undrafted free agent out of Iowa in 2020, carried out in all 17 video video games last season and had three complete tackles. The 6-foot-3, 242-pound linebacker carried out merely 4 snaps on safety last season and may most likely serve in a similar specific teams place in 2023.
Final season, the Ravens ranked third inside the NFL specifically teams effectivity, primarily based on Soccer Outsiders’ DVOA.
Huge receiver Nelson Agholor: The Ravens addressed one in every of their best areas of need March 24, agreeing to a maintain the free agent big receiver. The one-year contract is worth as a lot as $6.25 million, primarily based on quite a few tales.
Agholor, who will flip 30 in Could, presents Baltimore and Jackson a much-needed deep danger after spending the earlier two seasons with the New England Patriots, the place he started 20 video video games and caught 68 passes for 835 yards and 5 touchdowns. Final season, nonetheless, the 6-foot, 198-pound veteran was on the sphere for merely 45% of the Patriots’ snaps and he caught 31 passes for 362 yards and two touchdowns, with most of those numbers being collected early inside the yr.
However Agholor was moreover an fairly priced risk for the Ravens, who began the day with merely over $7.5 million in wage cap home.
Linebacker Del’Shawn Phillips: The 26-year-old linebacker, who was a secure performer on specific teams for the Ravens last season, is returning to Baltimore on a one-year deal.
A former undrafted free agent out of Illinois who moreover frolicked with the Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Payments and New York Jets, Phillips was an unrestricted free agent after the Ravens didn’t tender him.
Final season, Phillips, whom the Ravens claimed off waivers from the Jets last August, appeared in 16 video video games, tallying 5 tackles, along with three solo. He carried out only one snap on safety last yr.
Working once more Justice Hill: The 25-year-old working once more, whom the Ravens drafted out of Oklahoma State inside the fourth spherical in 2019, is re-signing with Baltimore on a two-year, $4.5 million deal that would probably be worth as quite a bit as $5 million, his agent Andrew Kessler confirmed to The Baltimore Solar.
Hill, who missed all of 2021 with a torn Achilles tendon, had his greatest yr last season, with 262 yards on 49 carries to go along with 12 catches for 58 yards in a career-best 15 video video games. He was moreover a significant part of Baltimore’s specific teams, which included kick return duties.
Cornerback Trayvon Mullen: The 25-year-old cornerback — who was claimed off waivers from the Dallas Cowboys in January and is a cousin of Jackson’s — has agreed to a one-year deal, his agent Kevin Conner confirmed to The Baltimore Solar. No completely different phrases have been disclosed.
Mullen, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound nook who was the Defensive Most Helpful Participant of the 2019 Faculty Soccer Playoff nationwide championship sport, had 134 tackles, 4 interceptions and 28 passes defended in 37 video video games for the Raiders.
Security Geno Stone: The 23-year-old safety, whom Baltimore drafted out of Iowa inside the seventh spherical in 2020 and was a restricted free agent, re-signed with the Ravens on a one-year deal March 16, his agent Jack Bechta confirmed to The Baltimore Solar.
Stone is coming off a secure yr whereby he carried out in all 17 video video games, along with seven begins. He had 38 tackles and one pressured fumble on the season and earned a 69.6 complete grade from Professional Soccer Focus inside the video video games he started, allowing merely eight catches as the primary defender in safety all through that span.
Free agent losses
Guard-center Trystan Colon: The New York Jets signed the 24-year-old former undrafted free agent to a one-year deal, Colon’s agent Andy Ross confirmed to The Baltimore Solar on March 17. Phrases of the settlement weren’t disclosed.
The third-year participant out of Missouri was a restricted free agent nonetheless wasn’t tendered by the Ravens, so he was free to sign with one different group.
The 6-foot-3, 313-pound Colon spent the earlier three seasons in Baltimore, the place he carried out in 20 video video games, along with 4 begins. After having fun with in a dozen video video games in 2021, he was energetic for merely six video video games last season and carried out 49 snaps, 47 of which acquired right here in his lone start in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 13.
Colon’s departure marks the second alongside the offensive line in newest days after guard Ben Powers signed a four-year, $52 million free-agent maintain the Denver Broncos.
Tight end Josh Oliver: The 25-year-old who spent the ultimate two seasons in Baltimore and was one in every of group’s most improved players last season agreed to a three-year, $21 million maintain the Vikings on March 13, a provide confirmed to The Baltimore Solar.
A third-round select by the Jaguars in 2019 who was traded to the Ravens in March 2021, Oliver carried out in all 17 video video games last season, starting 9 of them. Along with being certainly one of many league’s larger blockers, he moreover caught 14 passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns.
In return, the Ravens are in line to get a compensatory sixth-round draft select in 2024, per a elements that takes into consideration a participant’s frequent wage per yr, having fun with time and awards. Compensatory picks gained’t develop to be official until subsequent March.
With three-time Professional Bowl tight end Mark Andrews and 2022 fourth-round picks Isaiah Doubtless and Charlie Kolar anticipated to attribute further subsequent season, Oliver grew to change into expendable for the Ravens given their lack of cap home.
Left guard Ben Powers: After surprisingly profitable the start job last season and grading out as certainly one of many NFL’s best blocking guards, the 2019 fourth-round choose of Oklahoma cashed in, agreeing to a four-year, $52 million maintain the Broncos, primarily based on quite a few tales.
The deal makes Powers certainly one of many league’s highest-paid players on the place for a Broncos group that’s in search of to rebound from a dismal 5-12 advertising marketing campaign last season.
It moreover grew to change into evident that the Ravens might be unlikely to afford the 26-year-old, with regular supervisor Eric DeCosta admitting as quite a bit in January.
Baltimore is prepared as a lot as get a compensatory fourth-round draft select in 2024 after dropping Powers. It moreover means their starting left guard job may probably be up for grabs this summer season, with 2021 third-third select Ben Cleveland having struggled with accidents and conditioning and restricted free agent Trystan Colon further pure at coronary heart.
Defensive lineman Calais Campbell: The Ravens decrease the veteran, creating $7 million in cap monetary financial savings. Although the 36-year-old defensive lineman launched last month that he would return for a sixteenth season inside the league, the switch was not a surprising one. Campbell, who was beneath contract for one more season, had a $9.4 million cap hit in 2023 and was scheduled to earn a $2 million roster bonus and $4.5 million in wage. He was certainly one of many league’s most fixed defensive linemen last season and has prolonged been a revered voice inside the locker room. Campbell signed with the Atlanta Falcons on March 29.
Notable strikes
- The 2-years-long standoff between Jackson and the Ravens formally ended on Could 4, with Jackson signing a five-year extension with the group, worth a reported $260 million with $185 million assured, along with $112.5 million completely assured at signing. “I’m not likely apprehensive about what occurred previously,” Jackson said at a data conference saying the signing. “We’re going to maintain it about these subsequent 5 years and preserve it about what’s occurring as we speak. It’s an important day. … That’s all I’m centered on proper now.” The deal will preserve Jackson in a Baltimore uniform by means of the 2027 season. The switch comes after the Ravens had utilized a $32.4 million nonexclusive franchise tag to Jackson, defending the 26-year-old star quarterback off the free agent market nonetheless giving him an opportunity to pursue a contract with one different group. Baltimore would have had 5 days to match any present sheet Jackson signed, or they could’ve let him stroll and obtained two first-round draft picks in commerce, nonetheless no completely different affords materialized. Jackson was the eighth participant in Ravens historic previous to be franchise-tagged, and quite a few different of his predecessors, most currently exterior linebacker Matthew Judon in 2020, carried out full seasons beneath the tag, nonetheless Jackson and the Ravens prevented that and the saga dragging into the summer season by coming to phrases on the model new settlement correctly sooner than teaching camp opens in late July.
- Backup quarterback Tyler Huntley will most likely be once more in Baltimore for an extra season after signing his restricted free agent tender on April 24. The Ravens had positioned a right-of-first-refusal tender on Huntley in March, which meant any group may need signed him to a suggestion sheet, and if Baltimore didn’t match, it wouldn’t get any compensation in return. The 25-year-old will earn $2.627 million for the 2023 season sooner than becoming a free agent subsequent yr.
- The Ravens launched in February that they re-signed defensive end Brent City and cornerback Daryl Worley, every veterans who’ve been headed with out spending a dime firm.
Unrestricted free brokers
Working once more: Kenyan Drake
Huge receiver: Sammy Watkins, Demarcus Robinson
Offensive line: Ja’Wuan James
Outdoors linebacker: Justin Houston, Jason Pierre-Paul, Steven Means, Vince Biegel
Cornerback: Marcus Peters, Kyle Fuller, Kevon Seymour
Unique rights free brokers
Security: Ar’Darius Washington
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Originally posted 2023-05-24 16:59:29.