Whatever it takes, the Ravens are determined to have a stout pass rush next season.<\/p>\n
The franchise’s brain trust is scouring this week’s NFL Combine looking for prospects, and the 2026 class is deep with edge rushers.<\/p>\n
However, Baltimore won’t depend on the draft to provide all the answers. Signing or trading for a veteran pass rusher is a possibility. The Ravens expect young players on the roster, like outside linebacker Mike Green, to be more productive after another year of experience.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, New Head Coach Jesse Minter has spent the past two seasons orchestrating a successful pass rush scheme as the Los Angeles Chargers’ defensive coordinator. As he prepares for his first season as Baltimore’s defensive play-caller, Minter is confident Baltimore’s pass rush will be a problem for opposing quarterbacks.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of factors, I would say, that go into rushing the passer well,” Minter said. “Sometimes, it’s playing with the lead; sometimes it’s blitzing more. So, I think there’s a variety of ways to affect the pass rush.<\/p>\n
“I feel like we have some guys that can do that, some young, ascending players in that regard, that can help us there. It’s always a position that you’re looking for more, and so I know [General Manager] Eric [DeCosta] and the guys will do a great job attacking free agency and the draft in building a team that in September that we feel has the ability to rush the passer.”<\/p>\n
The Ravens aren’t pretending that last year’s pass rush was good enough. Defensive tackle Travis Jones was a bright spot with a career-high five sacks to lead the team, while Tavius Robinson (4.5 sacks) and Green (3.5) showed bright spots as young players.<\/p>\n
However, the Ravens dropped from 54 sacks in 2024 to just 30 in 2025, their fewest since 2010, when they had 27. Minter and DeCosta want a pass rush that forces turnovers and closes out games, which can be a major component of a championship-caliber team.<\/p>\n
“We certainly know that we have to augment the pass rush and improve there, and when we look at the best defenses, we see a ferocious pass rush, and that was lacking this year for different reasons,” DeCosta said. “It’s something that we feel strongly that we can attack this year in the offseason, whether it’s through free agency or the draft.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whatever it takes, the Ravens are determined to have a stout pass rush next season. The franchise’s brain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,783,1965,7,781,786,20472,6,169],"class_list":["post-778353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimoreravens","tag-clifton-brown","tag-combine","tag-football","tag-general","tag-homepage-centerpiece","tag-inline-news","tag-nfl","tag-ravens"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116138917645614364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778353","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=778353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}