{"id":793248,"date":"2026-03-05T07:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/793248\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:36:28","slug":"whats-going-to-happen-with-ravens-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/793248\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Going to Happen With Ravens\u2019 Free Agents?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robertson: Part of why the draft is so appealing is the unpredictability, and first-round trades add to the spice.<\/p>\n

The Ravens could trade up a few slots if a prospect they love drops, but I think it’s far more likely they will stand pat at pick No. 14 and take the best available player on their board.<\/p>\n

It can be very difficult for two teams to agree on terms involving a first-round draft pick. For every first-round trade, there could be 10 that never materialize and go unreported. There’s also the risk of mortgaging the future, which DeCosta addressed<\/a> in 2020, saying, “In general, trading up is dangerous; it’s a little bit risky.”<\/p>\n

At his end-of-season press conference in January, DeCosta was asked about trading for a pass rusher.<\/p>\n

“I do think a lot about these kinds of situations, and it’s not the draft capital, which is always a lot. You’re giving up a lot of times multiple first-round picks,” DeCosta said. “It’s the combination of the draft capital and the salary, which, in some ways, it’s prohibitive. I also think that when you get into that mindset that you’re one player away, you’re ripe to be fooled.”<\/p>\n

As for Miami edge rusher Rueben Bain, he’s a player I think the Ravens would be very fortunate to see fall to them. The talk with Bain last week at the Combine was about his sub-31-inch arms, and that concern has merit. But drafting a proven pass rusher like Bain, who had 20.5 sacks over three seasons, without giving up any draft capital could be another Kyle-Hamilton-like steal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robertson: Part of why the draft is so appealing is the unpredictability, and first-round trades add to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,4699,4689,7,781,891,4698,20847,6317,6,169,1049,7427],"class_list":["post-793248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimoreravens","tag-charlie-kolar","tag-chidobe-awuzie","tag-football","tag-general","tag-homepage-latest-headlines","tag-isaiah-likely","tag-justin-robertson","tag-mailbag","tag-nfl","tag-ravens","tag-ryan-mink","tag-tyler-linderbaum"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116175423783964466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793248","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=793248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}