{"id":704623,"date":"2026-01-25T19:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:42:21","slug":"former-ravens-wide-receiver-casts-his-vote-for-baltimores-next-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704623\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ravens wide receiver casts his vote for Baltimore&#8217;s next OC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Baltimore Ravens;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Baltimore Ravens<\/a> settle into a new coaching era, their fourth, this brave new world is still being constructed. Assistants must be hired, including a new offensive coordinator. They&#8217;ll be tasked with helping Lamar Jackson return to his MVP form. One thing everyone suggests is finding reinforcements at wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Zay Flowers is a monster, but there are times when it seems he&#8217;s the only one that create consistent separation. That&#8217;s an area where Baltimore can focus its offseason reconstruction, but that isn&#8217;t the most daunting task that this team faces. It needs to nail its OC hire. Everyone has their opinion about who that hire should be, and recently, an ex-Raven, a wide receiver nonetheless,<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Willie\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200c\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200c\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200c\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200c Snead IV casts his vote for Joe Brady.<\/p>\n<p>Willie\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200c\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200c\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200c\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200c Snead IV spent three seasons as a <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ravens;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ravens<\/a> wide receiver. He caught 126 passes for 1,422 yards and reached the end zone nine times over that stretch. He believes he has the perfect solution to fill Baltimore&#8217;s vacancy at offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a decent idea, one shared by other former Ravens and fans. He&#8217;d provide the transition this team is hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>Two things must be mentioned. He&#8217;s also being mentioned as a hot commodity on the head-coaching circuit. He has been part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a>&#8216; organization since 2022. We&#8217;ll see if this one grows legs. So far, it hasn&#8217;t, but one thing is certain. This is an idea that few Ravens fans, and even fewer members of the Baltimore media, would oppose.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2026\/01\/25\/former-ravens-wide-receiver-casts-his-vote-for-baltimores-next-oc\/88350084007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Ravens wide receiver casts his vote for Baltimore&#039;s next OC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Former Ravens wide receiver casts his vote for Baltimore&#8217;s next OC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Baltimore Ravens settle into a new coaching era, their fourth, this brave new world is still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,102525,53,7,12228,895,6,12611,169,16921,1473,29385,4648],"class_list":{"0":"post-704623","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-brave-new-world","12":"tag-buffalo-bills","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-joe-brady","15":"tag-lamar-jackson","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-offensive-coordinator","18":"tag-ravens","19":"tag-ravens-fans","20":"tag-wide-receiver","21":"tag-willie-snead-iv","22":"tag-zay-flowers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115957448525389477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704623","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=704623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}