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    Jayson Oweh will be known as Odafe Oweh in NFL

    Getty Images When the Ravens made the 31st pick of the draft on Thursday night, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced linebacker Jayson Oweh as the newest member of the team. That name isn’t going to appear on their roster, however. General Manager Eric DeCosta referred to Oweh as Odafe in...
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    Ravens announce they’ve picked up Lamar Jackson’s 2022 option

    Getty Images Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said earlier this week that the team would be exercising their fifth-year option on quarterback Lamar Jackson‘s contract and the move is now official. The Ravens announced that they picked up the option on Friday afternoon. The move guarantees...
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    Rashod Bateman: I can bring offense everything Lamar Jackson needs

    Getty Images The Ravens have been working to improve the effectiveness of their passing offense the last couple of years and they tried to take a step in that direction on Thursday night. Wide receiver Rashod Bateman was the first of their two first-round picks and he met with the media in...
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    Ravens select Minnesota wide receiver Rashod Bateman with 27th pick

    Getty Images Ravens General Manager Eric DeCosta said it was insulting to suggest his team didn’t have any receivers. But even with the faith DeCosta showed in the existing receivers on Baltimore’s roster, he felt like adding to the position with their first-round pick on Thursday night. The...
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    Ravens select Jayson Oweh with 31st pick

    Getty Images The Ravens have added an edge rusher with their second pick of the first round, selecting Jayson Oweh out of Penn State at No. 31 overall. Oweh had 6.5 tackles for loss but no sacks in 2020, still becoming a first-team All-Big Ten selection. But in 2019, he had 5.0 sacks after...
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    Ravens asked Falcons about Julio Jones, but contract makes trade unlikely

    Getty Images The Falcons are making Julio Jones available in a trade, and the Ravens are interested enough to ask what it would take to get a deal done. Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reported in an Instagram live session that the Ravens asked about Jones. However, because of Jones’ contract, a...
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    Falcons and/or Julio Jones apparently unwilling to facilitate a Ravens trade, for now

    Getty Images The headline from Jay Glazer is simple. The import is a bit more nuanced. The Ravens, as Glazer said, contacted the Falcons about a trade for receiver Julio Jones. But, alas for all involved, the Julio contract makes a trade unlikely. But the Ravens knew about the contract when...
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    Tom Brady tops NFLPA player sales list for year ending February 28

    Getty Images In New England, Tom Brady had sold a generation of Patriots jerseys and other gear. He’s now selling Buccaneers gear to a new generation of fans. The NFL Players Association has announced that Brady finished No. 1 on the union’s top 50 player sales list for the year ending...
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    Looking at the all-time great draft-day free falls

    Getty Images Wednesday’s PFT Live included, as it always does, a draft. Today’s draft, as it usually does at this time of year, looked at a subject related to the draft. With Simms’ mock draft projecting a Justin Fields free fall to No. 32 (the PFT mock has Fields going No. 3), we had an...
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    Ravens draft picks 2021: Full list of Baltimore’s draft picks, order for every round

    Getty Images The 2020 Ravens were among the teams hardest hit by COVID-19 but still earned a playoff berth at 11-5. Lamar Jackson finally got his playoff win with a 20-13 comeback victory over the Titans before losing to the Bills 17-3 in the Divisional Round. The Ravens will now have nine...
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    John Harbaugh: Lamar Jackson’s fifth-year option will be picked up

    Getty Images Just three years into his NFL career, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson already has an MVP on his résumé, which would ordinarily make it go without saying that the team sees him as its long-term answer. But after a suggestion from NFL Media that the Ravens might draft quarterback...
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    Fifth-year option tracker for 2018 NFL first-round picks

    Getty Images NFL teams will be adding first-round picks to their roster this week and some of them will then turn their attention to first-round picks from 2018. Fifth-year contract options for players selected in the first round that year need to be exercised by May 3 and some teams have...
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    Bucky Brooks suggests the Ravens should take Justin Fields, let Lamar Jackson “graduate”

    Getty Images Three years ago, the Ravens used the 32nd pick in round one on quarterback Lamar Jackson, who became the league’s MVP in only his second season. As Jackson inches toward his second contract, Bucky Brooks of NFL Media has an intriguing idea. Brooks thinks the Ravens should at least...
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    Will the Falcons find a taker for Julio Jones?

    Getty Images There are two potential explanations for the sudden rash of reports regarding a potential Julio Jones trade. One, Peter King had it initially and exclusively in Football Morning in America and others used it as a springboard for their own reporting (without crediting King). Two...
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    Brett Veach: Orlando Brown is certainly a special kid

    Getty Images The Chiefs took care of a significant need before the draft in trading for offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr. Brown will now be able to realize his desire to play left tackle, and he’ll do it for one of the league’s best teams over the last three years. In a statement announcing...
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    Jacoby Jones could have a rough night on Friday

    Getty Images For the first night of the draft, the Commissioner takes center stage. On the second night, current and former players announce plenty of the picks. The best moment came four years ago in Philadelphia, when Cowboys receiver Drew Pearson stirred up Eagles fans with a Hall of Fame...
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    Ravens to meet with offensive tackle Dennis Kelly

    Getty Images The Ravens are expected to sign offensive tackle Alejandro Villanueva after the draft, but he may not be the only player Baltimore will add at the position. Free agent offensive tackle Dennis Kelly also has a visit scheduled with the Ravens, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN...
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    Ravens trade Orlando Brown Jr. to Chiefs, get 2021 first-rounder

    Getty Images Orlando Brown Jr. will get his chance to play left tackle. According to multiple reports, the Ravens are trading Brown to the Chiefs. Brown asked for a trade this offseason because he wants to play on the left side permanently after showing he could handle the job after Ronnie...
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    Report: Chiefs plan to let Orlando Brown play out final year of his deal

    Getty Images The Chiefs paid a high price to obtain left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. The Ravens get first-, third-, and fourth-round picks this year and a 2022 fifth-rounder from the Chiefs, while Baltimore sent its 2021 second-round pick and a 2022 sixth-rounder to Kansas City. The Chiefs...
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    Report: Ravens are expected to sign Alejandro Villanueva after draft

    Getty Images The Ravens traded right tackle Orlando Brown Jr. to the Chiefs on Friday. They are expected to replace him with Alejandro Villanueva, Jamison Hensley of ESPN reports. The team won’t make the deal official until after Mary 3, the deadline for signings that factor into the formula...
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