{"id":80754,"date":"2025-05-26T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/80754\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:45:09","slug":"ravens-to-hold-lg-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/80754\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens To Hold LG Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four of the five starters from the Ravens\u2019 2024 offensive line are still in place for the coming campaign. As expected, though,\u00a0Patrick Mekari<\/a>\u00a0departed in free agency. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The former UDFA \u2013 who saw time at all five O-line spots over the course of his Baltimore tenure \u2013 helped his value with a strong left guard showing last year. As a result, he secured a three-year Jaguars contract<\/a> which includes $22.5MM in guarantees. The Ravens thus enter OTAs with a first-team vacancy up front.<\/p>\n

During free agency (in which veteran swingman Josh Jones<\/a>\u00a0also departed) the Ravens were quiet with respect to additions along the offensive line. That leaves Baltimore\u2019s incumbent blockers as well as the members of the team\u2019s rookie class to compete to replace Mekari. To no surprise, Baltimore\u2019s preferred option from last season looks to have the early lead.<\/p>\n

Andrew Vorhees<\/a>\u00a0finds himself as the frontrunner for the 2025 starting gig at this point, Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic writes (subscription required<\/a>). The former seventh-rounder\u2019s draft stock took a hit when he suffered an ACL tear during the 2023 Combine, an injury which sidelined him for his entire rookie campaign. Vorhees was healthy by this time last year, however, and he saw plenty of first-team reps at left guard through the summer. In Week 1, he joined Daniel Faalele<\/a> as a starting guard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An ankle injury suffered in Week 3 took Vorhees out of the lineup, though, and he never returned. The ailment led to Mekari moving inside after rotating with Roger Rosengarten<\/a>\u00a0at right tackle; the latter handled RT duties on a full-time basis after the Vorhees injury. That can be expected to continue in 2025, and Faalele\u2019s performance on the inside (after starting his career as a tackle) has earned him an extended look as a starter.<\/p>\n

Given Vorhees\u2019 lack of experience \u2013 268 regular season snaps on offense \u2013 he is far from certain to land another Week 1 gig. Baltimore also has Ben Cleveland<\/a>\u00a0in place after he re-signed on a one-year deal<\/a>. The 26-year-old has made 54 appearances with the Ravens, but that total only includes seven starts (none of which came in 2024). Cleveland will nonetheless receive another opportunity to secure a starting spot this summer.<\/p>\n

Three of the Ravens\u2019 11 draft picks<\/a> from last month were used on offensive linemen.\u00a0Carson Vinson\u00a0is in position to compete for the swing tackle role, but third-rounder\u00a0Emery Jones<\/a> could (when healthy) look to start at left guard as a rookie. One of Jones\u2019 LSU teammates \u2013 Garrett Dellinger\u00a0\u2013 was drafted by Baltimore in the seventh round, although a depth or practice squad spot is of course a more realistic expectation in his case. Nevertheless, several in-house candidates will be in place to replace Mekari atop the depth chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four of the five starters from the Ravens\u2019 2024 offensive line are still in place for the coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[4684,184,117,2282,6522,7,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-80754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-andrew-vorhees","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-baltimoreravens","12":"tag-emery-jones","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114575384849469529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80754","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=80754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}