Walker ranks No. 10 in yards per catch in the NFL

With just one catch in week 12, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Devontez Walker had the second-most receiving yards on the entire team in the 23-10 win over the New York Jets. Either head coach John Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Todd Monken are legally blind, or there is some preferential bias keeping Walker from getting well-earned snaps in the team offense in 2025. 

Only scoring three first-half points is the reference point Monken should use to warrant the fact that he needs to make extreme adjustments. If Walker makes life easier for struggling quarterback Lamar Jackson, creates underneath space for wide receiver Zay Flowers, tight-ends Mark Andrews and Isaiah Likely, and is quicker on his feet than Tylan Wallace and DeAndre Hopkins, what’s really left to discuss?

Just like in week 11, Monken again struggled to scheme anything special in the red zone, converting touchdowns by the skin of his teeth, and embarrassingly allowing the struggling New York Jets to hang around for far too long this past Sunday. Baltimore went two for five in the red zone, and Jackson had 10 incompletions on just 23 pass attempts.

Walker helps, but the cognitive dissonance of the Ravens’ coaching staff is becoming both scary and heinous at the same time. Walker ranks No. 10 in the entire NFL in yards per catch, and Monken refuses to deploy him for very unclear reasons. Walker has size, is fast, and with Flowers operating on the opposite side of him, he would make the perfect complementary piece to an offense well able to thrive in 12-, 21-, and 13-personnel. Additionally, Walker almost assures that the team offense will produce multiple 20-yard pass plays per game with play-action.

The Ravens’ pass game has potential, and Walker continues to show that he can be an immediate asset. The question is, how long will Harbaugh allow Monken to run a circus revolved around him being a puppet master instead of simply doing what works? The world may never know.