{"id":96437,"date":"2025-06-01T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96437\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:03:11","slug":"baltimore-ravens-rookie-malaki-starks-could-be-a-starter-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96437\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens rookie Malaki Starks could be a starter immediately."},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Ravens rookie Malaki Starks could be a starter immediately.<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Baltimore Ravens have one of the best safeties in the entire NFL in Kyle Hamilton, and now they may have another star at the position on their hands.<\/p>\n

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In a recent article by PFF<\/a>, they give some key players on every team’s starting lineup, as well as some rookies to watch. For the reigning AFC North champions, they list rookie safety Malaki Starks as someone who could make an immediate impact.<\/p>\n

“With Ar’Darius Washington\u2019s 2025 season in jeopardy due to a torn Achilles in May, Malaki Starks has very little standing in his way from starting at safety opposite Kyle Hamilton,” PFF wrote. “He was stellar during his three years at Georgia, earning an 87.5 career PFF overall grade. If Starks can live up to his first-round billing, Baltimore could quickly have the best safety pairing in the league with both players still under 25 years old.”<\/p>\n

The Ravens selected Starks out of Georgia with the 27th overall pick in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft. With the team allowing the second-most passing yards in the league in 2024, drafting secondary was in the team’s best interests.<\/p>\n

Starks finished his final season with the Bulldogs with an interception, three passes defended, and 77 total tackles, four of them being for a loss.<\/p>\n

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The Ravens are coming off of a loss in the AFC Divisional to the Buffalo Bills, so Starks and the rest of the team’s defense will be looking to help lead the team back to the playoffs to redeem themselves.<\/p>\n

Related: ‘Remarkably Consistent’ Ravens Dubbed Second-Most Complete Team<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Ravens Star Defender Awkwardly Due For Improved 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 1, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens rookie Malaki Starks could be a starter immediately. originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Baltimore Ravens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,1506,890,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-96437","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-kyle-hamilton","13":"tag-malaki-starks","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114609901049525217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96437","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=96437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}