{"id":811330,"date":"2026-03-14T05:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/811330\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:47:14","slug":"baltimore-ravens-release-qb-cooper-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/811330\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens release QB Cooper Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2025 season held many lessons for the Ravens. One was that Tyler Huntley is and long has been the best backup quarterback for Lamar Jackson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He re-signed with the team on a two-year deal before free agency, and accordingly, they released Cooper Rush at the start of the league year on Wednesday. The move cleared $453,000 in salary cap space wiht $2.2 million in dead money, <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/player\/cooper-rush\/6234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per OverTheCap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Huntley was available last offseason, but the Ravens opted to sign Rush to a two-year deal with $4 million that ensured his spot as the backup. But the former Cowboy struggled after Jackson went down in Week 4, quickly leading to calls for Huntley \u2013 who had joined the practice squad before the regular season \u2013 to take over the offense. The Ravens declined to make that move until late in Week 6, and they went into their Week 7 bye with a 1-5 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Huntley started against the Bears in Week 8 and kicked off a five-game win streak that brought Baltimore back into the playoff picture. He could not close out a Week 15 matchup against the Patriots when Jackson went down with a back injury, but he kept the Ravens\u2019 postseason chances alive the following week in Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rush, meanwhile, served as Baltimore\u2019s emergency third quarterback for the rest of the season with backup duties against the Packers. He did not play another snap and will now hit free agency in search of another backup gig, though he may have to compete for one after his performance in Baltimore. Pittsburgh is a logical destination, as Rush developed under new Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy in Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 season held many lessons for the Ravens. One was that Tyler Huntley is and long has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,9953,849,2282,7,6,169],"class_list":["post-811330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore-ravens-free-agency","tag-baltimore-ravens-news","tag-baltimoreravens","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-ravens"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116225956004038697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811330","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=811330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}