{"id":851235,"date":"2026-04-03T13:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:25:27","slug":"ravens-safeties-ranked-as-leagues-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851235\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens\u2019 Safeties Ranked As League\u2019s Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Hamilton, Two Ex-Ravens Are Highest-Paid Players at Their Positions<\/p>\n

Speaking of Hamilton, Verderame looked at the highest-paid player at each position, and unsurprisingly, and deservedly, Hamilton is the market-setter for safeties.<\/p>\n

“Drafted No. 14 in 2022, Hamilton has quickly become one of the league’s best players,” Verderame wrote<\/a>. “A three-time All-Pro, the former Notre Dame standout was given a $100.4 million deal over four seasons, kicking in next season. While the safety position is deep in talent, it’s tough to see anybody eclipsing Hamilton’s money in the next few years.”<\/p>\n

Former Ravens Tyler Linderbaum and Jordan Stout cashed in this offseason to become the top earners at center and punter, respectively.<\/p>\n

“Few contracts are genuinely stunning, but what the Raiders signed Linderbaum to certainly qualifies,” Verderame wrote. “Las Vegas essentially gave Linderbaum a fully guaranteed $81 million deal over three years, blowing past the previous top contract for a center, which was four years and $72 million for Kansas City’s Creed Humphrey. It’ll be quite some time before someone eclipses Linderbaum’s deal.<\/p>\n

“Stout reset the market this offseason, jumping from the Ravens to the Giants to join forces with Coach John Harbaugh. At $4.1 million, Stout is coming off a first-team All-Pro campaign in which he averaged 50.1 yards per punt with 24 kicks landing inside the 20-yard line.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton, Two Ex-Ravens Are Highest-Paid Players at Their Positions Speaking of Hamilton, Verderame looked at the highest-paid player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,781,786,7895,1506,888,890,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-851235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-general","13":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","14":"tag-jaylinn-hawkins","15":"tag-kyle-hamilton","16":"tag-late-for-work","17":"tag-malaki-starks","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116341004919210565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851235","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=851235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}