As fans of this great game of football, we’ve grown up on their in-house production arm, NFL Films. It’s hard to gauge how many hours have been poured into watching Baltimore Ravens highlights. It’s even harder to determine how many terabytes we’ve stored on hard drives, flash drives, and laptops we have sitting around the office.
At the time of this story being published, we haven’t even digested a week of training camp practices yet, but here we are, imagining what the 2025 NFL Films Ravens yearbook might look like.
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Will it end with a Super Bowl celebration and parade? Fingers are crossed. We do, however, know how the story begins. How about a glance at the acquisitions of DeAndre Hopkins and Jaire Alexander, two veterans and former All-Pros that Baltimore hopes can put them over the hump and in football’s biggest game.
Jaire Alexander looks no worse for wear.
Rule number one of every training camp is avoiding the temptation to overreact. Guys are wearing shorts. No one has any pads on. Contact and tackling are impermissible.
We’ve all kept one eye on Jaire Alexander, however. Put, though it’s hard to put a lot of stock in anything, it’s also hard to ignore how good he looks. He’s making plays. He’s breaking up passes. He fits in with his new Ravens teammates. Everyone paying attention seems to be noticing.
We’re off and running. It’s been a while since Alexander has been named an All-Pro or voted on the Pro Bowl roster, 2022 to be exact. He hasn’t played more than seven games in each of the past two seasons.
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Injuries aside, it’s easy to see why Baltimore would take a chance on him. Still, some ask questions similar to the following: What if he isn’t who he used to be? Here’s a better question. What if he is?
This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: Jaire Alexander is making a strong impression on Ravens teammates