{"id":807681,"date":"2026-03-12T05:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807681\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:22:21","slug":"afc-notes-maxx-crosby-trade-ravens-bengals-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807681\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Notes: Maxx Crosby Trade, Ravens, Bengals, Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bengals signed DE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MafeBo00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-11_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boye Mafe<\/a> to a three-year, $60 million deal that includes $19 million guaranteed paid as a roster bonus in the first year of the contract, a $4 million roster bonus due if he is on the roster on the fifth day of the 2027 league year, and annual per-game and roster bonuses. (<a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/player\/boye-mafe\/10085\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OTC<\/a>)<br \/>\nMemphis OT Travis Burke will meet in person with the Bengals at his pro day. (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JustinM_NFL\/status\/2029610741578293673?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Justin Melo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/2031490261872787483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jeremy Fowler<\/a> reports the Browns explored a trade for OL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JenkEl00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-11_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elgton Jenkins<\/a>, as did the Ravens, yet Cleveland wisely waited until his release to sign him.<br \/>\nMiami OT Markel Bell has a 30 visit set up with the Browns. (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_RyanFowler_\/status\/2030076664101699685?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ryan Fowler<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DMRussini\/status\/2031693455626273241\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dianna Russini<\/a> reports that teams interested in trading for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/CrosMa00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-11_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maxx Crosby<\/a>, including the Ravens, spoke with\u00a0his surgeon and the Raiders\u2019 medical staff before making trade offers.<br \/>\nFollowing this, the Ravens\u2019 doctors reviewed Crosby\u2019s MRI, and there were concerns about the long-term prognosis of Crosby\u2019s knee.<br \/>\nBaltimore believed the risk was too high, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DMRussini\/status\/2031722812646306270\" rel=\"nofollow\">Russini<\/a> adds that many around the league believe that the Ravens knew about the medical the entire time and\u00a0 GM Eric DeCosta simply wanted to back out of the deal.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DMRussini\/status\/2031724631543960037\" rel=\"nofollow\">Russini <\/a>reports that as of now, Crosby plans to play next season, which one source says: \u201cMaxx is going to be a monster this year as an F you to Baltimore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the latest NFL Insider News &amp; Rumors?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be sure to follow <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nfltraderumors.co\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Trade Rumors<\/a> on <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nfltrade_rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.com<\/a>\u00a0and <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nfltraderumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0for breaking NFL News and Rumors for all 32 teams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bengals signed DE Boye Mafe to a three-year, $60 million deal that includes $19 million guaranteed paid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[14163,86,85,54,2337,15906,168,7,102859,6563,6,107702],"class_list":{"0":"post-807681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-boye-mafe","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-elgton-jenkins","14":"tag-eric-decosta","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-markel-bell","17":"tag-maxx-crosby","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-travis-burke"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116214534023021717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807681","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=807681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}