{"id":797503,"date":"2026-03-07T03:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/797503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:08:15","slug":"maxx-crosby-stays-in-afc-after-being-traded-to-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/797503\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxx Crosby stays in AFC after being traded to Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Raiders now hold picks 1 and 14, with the first of those almost certainly being used to select quarterback Fernando Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Raiders have a lot of buying power in the next two drafts, but will they have any idea what to do with it? Meanwhile, the Ravens clearly want to maximize their window of opportunity while there\u2019s still a belief in Lamar Jackson as a Super Bowl-caliber quarterback. Baltimore now adds Crosby to a defense with players like Kyle Hamilton and Roquan Smith for new defensive-minded head coach Jesse Minter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There probably wasn\u2019t much heat to the idea that the Rams would trade for Crosby, especially after dealing for Trent McDuffie, although they certainly could have tried since they own a pick higher than the one coming from Baltimore. It\u2019s just a matter of whether or not Crosby is a significant enough upgrade to Byron Young or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This ends months of speculation of what will happen with one star NFL player on the move, but is the first domino for many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raiders now hold picks 1 and 14, with the first of those almost certainly being used to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,3378,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-797503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-rumors","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116185694552142086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797503","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=797503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}