Growing up in the ’90s and early 2000s, cornerback Chidobe Awuzie had always appreciated the Ravens’ reputation on defense.<\/p>\n
He thought the Ravens’ defense was so good that it was unfair to play as them in “Madden.”<\/p>\n
“It’s like, ‘Oh, you’re using the Ravens, bro? Oh, you can’t use the Ravens,'” Awuzie said. “It’s like cheating almost, you know what I’m saying? It’s like, they have that aura about the team.”<\/p>\n
Now experiencing his first training camp on the inside of the organization, Awuzie is embracing and loving the culture he heard about all those years.<\/p>\n
“This Baltimore Ravens team, this is a standard and a culture to follow around the NFL,” Awuzie said. “This tree has produced a lot of great players, great coaches, great systems. \u2026 I’m blessed to now be a part of that. Understanding what train like a Raven, play like a Raven means, it definitely resonates with your soul.”<\/p>\n
Awuzie said he spoke with Marlon Humphrey, Nnamdi Madubuike, and a few former players during free agency before signing a one-year deal. The nine-year veteran had other options, but there was something about the Ravens that pulled him toward Baltimore.<\/p>\n
“It was really just that gut feeling that made me want to run towards here, and it’s been great so far,” Awuzie said.<\/p>\n
Awuzie continues to have a strong camp, intercepting Lamar Jackson during Saturday’s practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growing up in the ’90s and early 2000s, cornerback Chidobe Awuzie had always appreciated the Ravens’ reputation on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[23699,44577,184,117,2282,7,781,891,20472,20847,6360,6,169,8896],"class_list":{"0":"post-275527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-2025-training-camp","9":"tag-2025-training-camp-news","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baltimore-ravens","12":"tag-baltimoreravens","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-general","15":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","16":"tag-inline-news","17":"tag-justin-robertson","18":"tag-news-notes","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-ravens","21":"tag-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115001524638826586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275527","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=275527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}