{"id":767834,"date":"2026-02-22T01:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/767834\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:26:15","slug":"ravens-te-isaiah-likely-unsure-about-potential-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/767834\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens TE Isaiah Likely Unsure About Potential Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravens TE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LikeIs00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-21_pfr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Likely<\/a> said during a recent interview that while he would return to Baltimore, he is unsure what free agency holds for him as he tests the market for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Baltimore. They took the chance on me when all 31 didn\u2019t,\u201d Likely said on Gruden Goes Long. \u201cAt the end of the day, I tell everybody Baltimore is home for me. But business is business, so I\u2019m really just seeing what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to be able to blossom,\u201d Likely continued. \u201cThe last couple years, I\u2019ve had a great vet in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/A\/AndrMa00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-21_pfr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Andrews<\/a>, where he taught me everything to be a star-caliber tight end to the point where it\u2019s like now I just want to be on a team where I can get out there and help a quarterback, help a team be able to put as much points on the board as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likely, 25, was selected by the Ravens out of Coastal Carolina with the No. 139 overall pick in the fourth round of the 2022 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He just finished out the final year of a four-year, $4,164,338 contract that includes a $504,338 signing bonus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Likely appeared in 14 games for the Ravens, catching 27 passes for 307 yards and one touchdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We will have more on Likely as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens TE Isaiah Likely said during a recent interview that while he would return to Baltimore, he is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-767834","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-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116111685212290380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767834","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=767834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}