{"id":329931,"date":"2025-08-31T00:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/329931\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T00:21:07","slug":"ravens-te-mark-andrews-is-looking-for-a-bounce-back-season-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/329931\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens TE Mark Andrews is looking for a bounce-back season in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews headlines a list of 15 star players looking for bounce-back seasons in 2025<\/p>\n<p>Mark Andrews had what some consider a down season in 2024, but still was among the league leaders in touchdowns and yards per reception. Andrews\u00a0will eventually be inducted into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ravens<\/a>\u00a0Ring of Honor and has an excellent shot at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Still, his time with the organization will ultimately end, and there&#8217;s no guarantee he&#8217;ll spend 2026 with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/agents-take-stefon-diggs-deebo-samuel-joey-bosa-headline-15-bounce-back-candidates-for-2025-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Sports <\/a>recently took a look at fifteen players who aren&#8217;t quarterbacks to keep an eye on during the 2025 season, and Andrews headlines a list of players looking for a bounce-back season.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews had a 2024 playoffs he would like to forget. He had two key mistakes in Baltimore&#8217;s 27-25 loss to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> in the divisional round: a fumble that led to a field goal to give Buffalo an eight-point lead midway through the fourth quarter and the drop of a game-tying two-point conversion with less than two minutes left to play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\" data-autotag=\"6f9d8950-4e8a-4277-ba96-ee5ce9eb842e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ravens<\/a> seem to have a succession plan in place at tight end with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2961906\/isaiah-likely\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Likely<\/a>, who was a 2022 fourth-round pick. Likely signing a deal comparable to the four-year, $56 million extension, averaging $14 million per year, Andrews received in 2021 to remain in Baltimore wouldn&#8217;t be surprising. Andrews, who turns 30 on Sept. 6 and is in a contract year, is probably auditioning for his next team this season since it&#8217;s hard to envision the Ravens making a significant investment in two tight ends in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise took steps to ensure his place on the roster, <a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2025\/03\/16\/baltimore-ravens-mark-andrews-bonus-2025-roster\/82477536007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">picking up and paying out a $4 million<\/a> option bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the rough ending to last season, Andrews is still elite. He recorded a career-best 11 touchdowns in 2024, along with 55 receptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews headlines a list of 15 star players looking for bounce-back seasons in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[247,265,2023,184,117,2282,215,214,53,7,20842,2022,759,88,6,35196,245,537,530,169,818,817,829,9,266,819,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-329931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-andrews","11":"tag-baltimore","12":"tag-baltimore-ravens","13":"tag-baltimoreravens","14":"tag-bills","15":"tag-buffalo","16":"tag-buffalo-bills","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-hub","19":"tag-mark","20":"tag-mark-andrews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-nfl-hub","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-positive","26":"tag-positive","27":"tag-ravens","28":"tag-scores","29":"tag-sport","30":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-sports-news","33":"tag-statistics","34":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115120523743798024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329931","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=329931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}