{"id":125678,"date":"2025-06-13T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/125678\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T04:00:20","slug":"baltimore-ravens-tight-end-tough-guy-isaiah-likely-receives-high-praise-in-minicamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/125678\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens Tight End ‘Tough Guy’ Isaiah Likely Receives High Praise in Minicamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Ravens Tight End ‘Tough Guy’ Isaiah Likely Receives High Praise in Minicamp<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Baltimore Ravens are knee-deep in mandatory minicamp this week. And while there aren’t any pads being worn and real hitting yet, it’s easy to see who’s impressing.<\/p>\n

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Mark Andrews is still the top tight end target entering 2025, but that could be changing soon.<\/p>\n

Former fourth-round pick Isaiah Likely has improved in each of his previous three seasons and stepped up his game while Andrews was out with an injury in 2023.<\/p>\n

Andrews still commands 55 percent of the offensive plays while Likely is on the field for roughly 46 percent.<\/p>\n

But we could see a seismic shift in the tight end room coming soon. Per Ravens safety Malaki Starks, Likely may be stepping up his game in 2025.<\/p>\n

“Malaki Starks says Isaiah Likely has been the toughest guy to cover in practice so far. Said he\u2019s faster than he looks on TV,” Ryan Mink posted on X.<\/p>\n

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In his third season last year, Likely posted 477 yards on 42 catches and six touchdowns – all career-highs.<\/p>\n

His productivity has improved each of his three seasons in the league, meaning that 2025 could be a big season for him and for Baltimore.<\/p>\n

Likely’s rookie season saw 373 yards on 36 catches and three touchdowns. The next year, in 2023, the former Coastal Carolina star caught 30 balls for 411 yards and five scores.<\/p>\n

His 2024 saw him post higher numbers and be a bigger part of the offense.<\/p>\n

In two postseason games last year, Likely caught seven passes on nine targets for 126 yards and a touchdown, including four big first-down conversions.<\/p>\n

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The Ravens and Likely would love to see that number increase in the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

Related: Ravens Defensive Trio Ranked Among NFL’s Elite<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Ravens Key Defender Bulks Up Ahead of 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 12, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens Tight End ‘Tough Guy’ Isaiah Likely Receives High Praise in Minicamp originally appeared on Athlon Sports.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,4698,890,759,6,169,1049],"class_list":{"0":"post-125678","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-football","12":"tag-isaiah-likely","13":"tag-malaki-starks","14":"tag-mark-andrews","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ravens","17":"tag-ryan-mink"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114674062088515516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125678","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=125678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}