It’s a brutal blow for a player coming off a breakout season and who was expected to have a major role in Baltimore’s defense again.<\/p>\n
Washington signed his one-year restricted free agent tender on April 21 and is one of the team’s top three safeties along with Kyle Hamilton and first-round pick Malaki Starks.<\/p>\n
Washington, 25, stepped into the starting lineup midway through last season and helped stabilize the Ravens’ secondary next to Hamilton. A formerly undrafted and undersized 5-foot-8 safety, Washington was one of the season’s best stories and defense’s most impactful players.<\/p>\n
Playing bigger than his size, Washington had an interception in his second start against Denver, forced a key fumble in a 12-tackle performance against Pittsburgh, and made a goal-line fourth-down tackle in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s a brutal blow for a player coming off a breakout season and who was expected to have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[5193,184,117,2282,7,781,786,6,782,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-48025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-ardarius-washington","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-baltimoreravens","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-general","14":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-offseason","17":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114503214303761780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025","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=48025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}