Defensive Coordinator Zach Orr has been impressed by Starks’ willingness to engage in conversation and communicate on the field.<\/p>\n
“I’ve already seen the impact that ‘K-Ham’ has had on Malaki with his communication, his knowledge, and just his football savvy,” Orr said. “I have a great vision for those guys. I think they’re going to help us out and play great football for us.”<\/p>\n
After early-season struggles in 2024, Baltimore’s pass defense took a major leap when Ar’Darius Washington became a starter and Hamilton stayed primarily at free safety. Unfortunately, Washington suffered a torn Achilles last month that is expected to keep him out of action until at least November.<\/p>\n
That makes Starks’ addition to the secondary even more important, but he’s not feeling extra pressure. He loves football and is confident he can be an immediate playmaker on a team with Super Bowl aspirations.<\/p>\n
Starks said one of the biggest adjustments he’s had to make so far is the different spacing of the hash marks. That has changed his “landmarks” when dropping into coverage.<\/p>\n
“The field is completely different than college,” Starks said. “When I first got here, they would say if my job was at the numbers, I was going to the college numbers, but I was missing the league numbers. So, just being able to work on that, stay after practice and just watch a lot of tape and just kind of reprogram myself into [the mindset of], ‘This is where I’m supposed to be at,’ has been the challenging thing, but it is getting a lot better with all the help, and all the reps that I’m getting is huge in my development.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defensive Coordinator Zach Orr has been impressed by Starks’ willingness to engage in conversation and communicate on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,783,7,781,891,20472,890,6,782,8405,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-120324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-clifton-brown","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-general","14":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","15":"tag-inline-news","16":"tag-malaki-starks","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-offseason","19":"tag-otas","20":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114662552705716854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}