Nebraska wide receiver and former St. Frances Academy Panther Jahmal Banks has just signed with the Ravens as an undrafted free agent.<\/p>\n
Banks has the measurements of a prototypical X receiver, which the Ravens have had trouble drafting since the beginning of time.<\/p>\n
In fact, the last time the purple and black had a ‘go up and get it guy’ on the roster was 2012 in none other than Anquan Boldin.<\/p>\n
The Ravens recently tapped the shoulder of DeAndre Hopkins to provide some of that, but he’s in the twilight of his career.<\/p>\n
Banks played at Wake Forest for three seasons and then transferred to Nebraska, where he logged in 587 yards and three touchdowns last season.<\/p>\n
If he can somehow make the final 53, this will be a boon to the WR core, especially in the “gotta have it down” and red redzone target departments.<\/p>\n
Banks will have a tough time seeing the field, as the ball has to hit the hands of Henry, Flowers, Bateman, Likely, Hopkins, Hill, Mitchell, Andrews, etc.<\/p>\n
However, there is a chance for him to maybe lock himself somewhere between the 5-6 WR slot.<\/p>\n
On his tape, Banks is seen everywhere.<\/p>\n
He’s going up on a ladder in the end zone and in the middle of the field.<\/p>\n
He’s finding soft spots in the zone, using his size to big-boy small corners, going up on a ladder to attack the ball, and making contested catches\u2014all green checks for a team which favors smaller WRs.<\/p>\n
It’s not wise to get super excited over UDFAs, but a guy can have hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nebraska wide receiver and former St. Frances Academy Panther Jahmal Banks has just signed with the Ravens as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,5135,2282,7,5136,5137,6,169,5139,5140,5138,5141,5142],"class_list":{"0":"post-7610","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-baltimore-ravens-udfa-signings","11":"tag-baltimoreravens","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jahmal-banks-nebraska","14":"tag-jahmal-banks-ravens","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ravens","17":"tag-ravens-undrafted-free-agents-2024","18":"tag-ravens-wide-receiver-depth-chart","19":"tag-ravens-x-receiver","20":"tag-st-frances-academy-nfl-players","21":"tag-wmar-2-news-baltimore"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114416946062745896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","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=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}