{"id":88788,"date":"2025-05-29T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/88788\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:53:09","slug":"malaki-starks-signs-ravens-rookie-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/88788\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaki Starks Signs Ravens Rookie Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ravens have signed first-round pick Malaki Starks to his rookie contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 27th-overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, Starks is signed to a four-year deal with the fifth-year team option. He inked the deal Thursday during the first week of Ravens organized team activities.<\/p>\n<p>Starks is projected to have an immediate large role in the Ravens secondary, perhaps starting next to All-Pro Kyle Hamilton as a ball-hawking free safety.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/news\/ardarius-washington-torn-achilles-injury-torn-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">After Ar\u2019Darius Washington suffered a torn Achilles<\/a> earlier this month, Starks will see even more snaps in a safety unit that also includes Sanoussi Kane and Beau Brade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think [Starks] is doing a good job. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s really flashed yet, because he&#8217;s just trying to be in the right spot right now and make the right call,&#8221; Head Coach John Harbaugh said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safeties have a lot of communication, but I haven&#8217;t seen him make a mistake yet with the communication. He looks really good as an athlete, and with Ar&#8217;Darius&#8217; situation, it&#8217;s a lot on his plate right now, so he&#8217;s going to have to step up. But it&#8217;s why we drafted him in the first round.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ravens have signed first-round pick Malaki Starks to his rookie contract. The 27th-overall pick in the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,781,786,20472,890,6,782,169,1049,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-88788","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-inline-news","15":"tag-malaki-starks","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-offseason","18":"tag-ravens","19":"tag-ryan-mink","20":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114592875125366337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88788","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=88788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}