The Baltimore Ravens have existed for 30 years, five years longer than the list of top players on Pro Football Focus’ ranking since 2000.

PFF compiled a list of the top players of the past 25 years, and Baltimore had three players make the list, one of whom is entering his second year with the club.

RB Derrick Henry

What PFF said: Henry’s inclusion as the highest-graded running back in PFF history is made all the more impressive by the fact that he is still going at 30 years old and just engineered the best-graded season of his career in Year 9.

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In his first year with the Baltimore Ravens in 2024, Henry led the league in both PFF overall grade (94.1) and PFF rushing grade (93.5) for his position while posting a career-high 6.0 yards per carry on 367 attempts. His 3.6 yards after contact per attempt in his career is the second-best mark of all time among 159 qualifying running backs — behind only Nick Chubb (3.8), though Henry has handled nearly double the number of carries.

LB Ray Lewis

What PFF said: Lewis’ career dates back further than PFF grading, beginning in 1996, though he is deserving of making the quarter-century team when projecting the start of his career — five first-team All-Pro appearances and two Defensive Player of the Year awards — to the PFF era.

Once PFF’s grading began, Lewis produced one of the best career grades for the position, ranking among the top five linebackers since 2006. His 2009 season was his best captured by PFF, as he delivered a 91.4 PFF overall grade — the top mark that year and tied for the third-best season all time for the position.

DB Ed Reed

What PFF said: Much like Polamalu, Reed began his career before PFF grading commenced. We missed out on his 2004 Defensive Player of the Year season and two All-Pro and Pro-Bowl performances.

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In the years that followed, Reed delivered the second-highest career forced incompletion rate (19.3%) of the PFF era among 116 qualifying safeties. His 93.4 PFF coverage grade in 2009 was the third-best mark ever captured for the safety position by PFF, while his 91.8 PFF overall grade that year is tied for the fourth-best single-season mark.

Henry currently has 11,423 career rushing yards, ranking 19th all-time, and another 1,300+ yard season could move him into the top 10 all-time in rushing leaders. Reed’s 64 career interceptions rank seventh in NFL history, while his 1,590 INT return yards stand No. 1.

At the time of his retirement in 2012, Lewis held three records with the Ravens: most seasons played (17), most career games (228), and most career opponent fumbles recovered (20). He posted a franchise record 2,643 career tackles, including a single-season team-best 225 stops in 2003. A 12-time Pro Bowl selection, Lewis received first-team All-Pro honors eight times during his career. He was recognized as the AP Defensive Player of the Year in 2000 and 2003, and was named to the NFL’s All-Decade Team of the 2000s.

This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: Ravens have two players make the All-PFF Team of the past 25 years