The Ravens are standing pat.
The NFL commerce deadline got here and went Tuesday with out Baltimore making a transfer. Coach John Harbaugh stated the day earlier than that he thinks the staff has all the pieces it wants by way of gamers to achieve success, and the dearth of including to the roster appears to point common supervisor Eric DeCosta feels the identical.
DeCosta, who sometimes doesn’t communicate to the media in the course of the season, was unavailable for remark.
“Do we have a specific overarching have-to-have guy? No,” Harbaugh stated Monday. “We have an excellent roster.”
Though the NFL commerce deadline doesn’t produce the identical flurry of exercise that’s seen in different sports activities such because the NBA and MLB, there have been offers to be made.
The San Francisco 49ers strengthened their already elite protection by reportedly buying and selling a 2024 third-round decide for Commanders star defensive finish Chase Young. Washington additionally unloaded their different defensive finish, Montez Sweat, to the Chicago Bears for a second-round draft decide subsequent yr.
The Minnesota Vikings, who misplaced quarterback Kirk Cousins for the remainder of the season to a torn Achilles tendon Sunday, traded sixth- and seventh-round picks to the Arizona Cardinals for a seventh-round decide and quarterback Joshua Dobbs, who had stuffed in whereas Kyler Murray continued to work his manner again from a torn ACL.
The Detroit Lions, in the meantime, landed large receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones from the Cleveland Browns for a sixth-round decide in 2025.
And simply up I-95, Eagles common supervisor Howie Roseman every week earlier than the deadline maybe bolstered Philadelphia’s probabilities of returning to the Super Bowl by buying Titans All-Pro security Kevin Byard, whose 27 interceptions since 2016 are essentially the most within the NFL.
As for the Ravens, they seem like proud of a roster that has produced a 6-2 document and boasts the league’s greatest protection in a number of metrics, together with sacks (31), factors allowed per sport (15.1) and is No. 1 in FTN Fantasy’s Defense-adjusted Value Over Average (DVOA). On offense, they misplaced their prime working again J.Ok. Dobbins for the season to a torn Achilles tendon in Week 1, however Justice Hill and Gus Edwards have completed a strong if unspectacular job filling in.
Still, regardless of their success this season the Ravens have endured uneven performances on each side of the ball, and Harbaugh stated they have been open to a possible commerce.
“If an opportunity came to bring in somebody that can help us or make us better in any area, really, but certain areas more than others of course, and you can do it in a way that’s affordable to the team and the club cap-wise [and] draft pick-wise, those kind of things, you would do it,” he stated. “You would do it to try and get better.”
That’s what they did a yr in the past, buying and selling 2023 second- and fifth-round picks, together with linebacker A.J. Klein, to the Chicago Bears for All-Pro inside linebacker Roquan Smith. This season, Smith leads the staff in tackles and is the unquestioned vocal chief within the locker room and on the sector.
In 2019, the Ravens additionally made a serious transfer on the deadline, buying cornerback Marcus Peters from the Los Angeles Rams in alternate for linebacker Kenny Young and a 2020 fifth-round decide. Peters tore his ACL in 2021 and missed the season, however in 37 video games with Baltimore had eight interceptions, together with two for touchdowns, in the course of the common season, and his interception late in a wild-card playoff sport in opposition to the Titans in the course of the 2020 season helped seal a 20-13 victory.
Though tight on cap area — simply $2.8 million presently — the Ravens did have the belongings to make a transfer.
Baltimore has eight picks in subsequent April’s draft, with one decide by every of the primary 5 rounds, plus their very own seventh-round decide. They even have the Jets’ seventh-rounder from the Chuck Clark commerce and can probably get a compensatory fourth-round decide after left guard Ben Powers signed with the Denver Broncos in free company within the offseason. They may even open up extra cap area with every week exterior linebacker Tyus Bowser, lengthy snapper Nick Moore and rookie offensive lineman Andrew Vorhees stay on the non-football harm checklist, and there are nearly at all times contracts that may be restructured to fabricate extra.
However, it’s doable that Bowser may quickly be getting back from his knee harm, with Harbaugh saying Monday that the veteran is “optimistic” he could be again within the subsequent few weeks. He additionally stated that cornerback Damarion “Pepe” Williams is anticipated to be coming off injured reserve after present process ankle surgical procedure in August.
“I love our guys,” Harbaugh stated. “I think we have everything we need to be successful.”
Time will inform.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com