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Best draft picks in Baltimore Ravens history<\/p>\n

Stacker<\/a> compiled a list of the best draft picks in Baltimore Ravens history using career Weighted Approximate Value (wAV), a metric developed by Pro-Football-Reference.com<\/a> to estimate career impact. The ranking also lists individual accolades such as Pro Bowl selections, First-Team All-Pro honors, and total years as a starter. Players were assigned to their originally drafted teams, excluding any draft-day trades. Data is as of April 2026.<\/p>\n

#10. Chris McAlister (1999, Round 1, Pick 10)
– Position: DB
– Career wAV: 70
– Pro Bowls: 3
– First-Team All-Pro: 1
– Games Played: 137
– Seasons as Starter: 9<\/p>\n

#9. C.J. Mosley (2014, Round 1, Pick 17)
– Position: LB
– Career wAV: 81
– Pro Bowls: 5
– First-Team All-Pro: 0
– Games Played: 133
– Seasons as Starter: 8<\/p>\n

#8. Marshal Yanda (2007, Round 3, Pick 86)
– Position: T
– Career wAV: 92
– Pro Bowls: 8
– First-Team All-Pro: 2
– Games Played: 177
– Seasons as Starter: 10<\/p>\n

#7. Jonathan Ogden (1996, Round 1, Pick 4)
– Position: T
– Career wAV: 95
– Pro Bowls: 11
– First-Team All-Pro: 4
– Games Played: 177
– Seasons as Starter: 12<\/p>\n

#6. Joe Flacco (2008, Round 1, Pick 18)
– Position: QB
– Career wAV: 97
– Pro Bowls: 1
– First-Team All-Pro: 0
– Games Played: 209
– Seasons as Starter: 12<\/p>\n

#5. Haloti Ngata (2006, Round 1, Pick 12)
– Position: DT
– Career wAV: 100
– Pro Bowls: 5
– First-Team All-Pro: 2
– Games Played: 180
– Seasons as Starter: 12<\/p>\n

#4. Ed Reed (2002, Round 1, Pick 24)
– Position: DB
– Career wAV: 102
– Pro Bowls: 9
– First-Team All-Pro: 5
– Games Played: 174
– Seasons as Starter: 11<\/p>\n

#2. Terrell Suggs (2003, Round 1, Pick 10) (tie)
– Position: LB
– Career wAV: 110
– Pro Bowls: 7
– First-Team All-Pro: 1
– Games Played: 244
– Seasons as Starter: 15<\/p>\n

#2. Lamar Jackson (2018, Round 1, Pick 32) (tie)
– Position: QB
– Career wAV: 110
– Pro Bowls: 4
– First-Team All-Pro: 3
– Games Played: 116
– Seasons as Starter: 7<\/p>\n

#1. Ray Lewis (1996, Round 1, Pick 26)
– Position: LB
– Career wAV: 160
– Pro Bowls: 12
– First-Team All-Pro: 7
– Games Played: 228
– Seasons as Starter: 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"– Best draft picks in Baltimore Ravens history Stacker compiled a list of the best draft picks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,19673,2282,7,562,55233,895,20125,6,22891,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-871587","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-baltimore-ravens-history","11":"tag-baltimoreravens","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-joe-flacco","14":"tag-jonathan-ogden","15":"tag-lamar-jackson","16":"tag-marshal-yanda","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-pro-bowls","19":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116446238250572564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871587","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=871587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}