{"id":770386,"date":"2026-02-23T04:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770386\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:25:21","slug":"te-isaiah-likely-open-to-new-ravens-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/770386\/","title":{"rendered":"TE Isaiah Likely Open To New Ravens Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isaiah Likely<\/a>\u00a0has flashed potential while playing out his rookie contract. A first career trip to free agency looms, but remaining in place with the Ravens could still be on the table. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Selected in the fourth round of the 2022 draft, Likely emerged as a regular contributor on offense in Baltimore. His most productive season came in 2024 with a 42-477-6 statline. Likely was expected to take another step forward in his walk year, but a preseason foot injury resulted in missed time in the fall. While slowly working his way back to full strength, he managed only 27 receptions and a single score.<\/p>\n

Still, Likely could easily generate a strong market in free agency. The 25-year-old could be viewed as an option for an outside team\u2019s primary pass-catching tight end role, something which could price him out of Baltimore. The Ravens signed\u00a0Mark Andrews<\/a> to a new deal in December<\/a>, ensuring the top of their depth chart at the position will remain unchanged through 2026 and beyond. Likely may well need to head elsewhere to take on a full-time starting role as a result.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith my agent, what I told him was I just want to\u00a0be able to blossom,\u201d\u00a0Likely said during an appearance<\/a> on the\u00a0Gruden Goes Long\u00a0podcast.\u00a0\u201cThe last couple years, I\u2019ve had a great vet in Mark Andrews, 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

Likely has recorded a catch percentage of at least 72.4% in each of the past three years, and for his career he has averaged 11.6 yards per reception. Interested teams could thus see the Coastal Carolina product as a candidate to break out with an elevated workload. Likely said he is open to re-signing with the Ravens \u2013 something which would see him continue to share snaps with Andrews \u2013 but added \u201cbusiness is business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baltimore has Andrews along with wideout\u00a0Rashod Bateman<\/a>\u00a0under contract for multiple years.\u00a0Zay Flowers<\/a>\u00a0is coming off his second straight 1,000-yard campaign, and 2026 marks the first offseason in which he is eligible for an extension. Making a big-money commitment to Flowers could leave Baltimore short on available funds in terms of pass-catching options, making Likely a name to watch as free agency approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaiah Likely\u00a0has flashed potential while playing out his rookie contract. A first career trip to free agency looms,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,4698,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-770386","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-isaiah-likely","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116118051102669221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770386","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=770386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}