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Getty Images Last year, the Raiders opened Allegiant Stadium in Week Two with no fans on Monday Night Football. In 2021, Las Vegas will again play its home opener on MNF — but this time, fans will be in attendance. The NFL announced Wednesday that the Ravens and Raiders will finish the...

Getty Images Three first-round quarterbacks from the class of 2018 approach their fourth NFL seasons, with long-term deals expected for each. So when it comes to the second contracts for Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield, Bills quarterback Josh Allen, and Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, who’s...

USA TODAY Sports Quarterback Ryan Mallett last played football in 2017. He’s back, in the Spring League. Playing for the Generals, one of the eight teams in the expanded minor league, the 2011 third-round pick of the Patriots completed 20 of 31 passes for 252 yards in a 21-19 win over the...

Getty Images Different people look at different places first when the league releases the schedule. Where does Ravens G.M. Eric DeCosta go when he sees his team’s schedule? “December,” he recently told PFT PM, without hesitation, when asked that question. “I look at December games because I...

USA TODAY Sports Eric DeCosta said before the draft that he was insulted by the criticism of the team’s receivers. Then, the Ravens drafted a pair of receivers in round one and four. So how does DeCosta reconcile his pre-draft comments with his in-draft decisions? “Well, it was before the...

Getty Images Tackle Alejandro Villanueva is making the move from the Steelers to the Ravens and that means a significant change in offensive philosophies. Villanueva said on Wednesday that learning his new playbook is a bigger challenge than switching from left to right tackle, but it is one...

Getty Images Alejandro Villanueva will be switching positions after signing with the Ravens this week, but moving from left tackle to right tackle isn’t his biggest concern. Villanueva spoke to reporters on Wednesday about moving from the Steelers to their divisional rivals in Baltimore and...

Getty Images New Ravens offensive tackle Alejandro Villanueva is looking forward to facing his old team. Villanueva, who spent the last seven years with the Steelers, told Baltimore reporters today that he considers the Steelers “a class-act organization,” but that doesn’t mean he’s not eager...

Getty Images In 2017, Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster had to wait through more than 60 picks before he was drafted. He recently said that the wait to get drafted wasn’t as stressful as his first foray into free agency. “I would probably say free agency was more nerve wracking than draft...

Getty Images It may be wishful thinking. It may be an effort to speak it into existence. It may be a lucky guess. It may end up being flat wrong. Regardless, Ravens president Dick Cass explained in a letter to Personal Seat License holders that the team is optimistic that it will host a full...

Getty Images The Ravens have mastered the art of signing free agents after the window closes on the acquisition counting toward the compensatory draft pick formula. But waiting to sign free agents entails a risk of having some other team making a move. As it relates to former Steelers tackle...

Getty Images The Rams traded cornerback Marcus Peters to the Ravens in the middle of the 2019 season, and Peters still has a problem with how that all went down. On the same day the Rams traded Peters, they traded for cornerback Jalen Ramsey, and Peters says he considers it a slap in the face...

Getty Images When the Ravens brought in tackle Alejandro Villanueva for a visit last month, word from Baltimore reporters was that the team was not expected to make a move until after the draft. Compensatory draft picks were central to that approach. The Ravens and other teams have prized the...

Getty Images Baltimore has landed a right tackle. According to multiple reports, former Steeler Alejandro Villanueva is signing a two-year, $14 million deal with $8 million guaranteed with the Ravens. The move was expected after Baltimore traded Orlando Brown Jr. to Kansas City last month...

Getty Images The Ravens have taken offense to suggestions that they were lacking at wide receiver, but their last three drafts make it clear that there’s a concerted effort going on to improve the group. Rashod Bateman was a first-round pick and Tylan Wallace came in the fourth round, which...

Getty Images The deadline for NFL teams to exercise their fifth-year contract options on 2018 first-round picks passed on Monday afternoon and 21 players had those options picked up. Panthers quarterback Sam Darnold is part of that group. Carolina traded for Darnold last month and announced...

Getty Images Kyle Pitts is in. As a result, Hayden Hurst eventually will be out. The Falcons won’t pick up the fifth-year option on the contract of Hurst, according to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com. A first-round pick of the Ravens in 2018, the Falcons traded for Hurst in 2020. Atlanta gave up a...

Getty Images The Ravens picked up their option on quarterback Lamar Jackson‘s contract for the 2022 season on Friday and General Manager Eric DeCosta said again on Saturday that the team plans for a much longer stay. DeCosta said last month that he has talked to Jackson’s camp about an...

Getty Images Before the draft, Ravens General Manager Eric DeCosta said it’s “insulting” to suggest that the Ravens don’t have any receivers. Then DeCosta chose one with Baltimore’s first-round pick, bringing in Minnesota’s Rashod Bateman. The club then added Oklahoma State’s Tylan Wallace in...

Getty Images The Ravens opened their draft by taking wide receiver Rashod Bateman and they added another player to the receiver room in the fourth round. Baltimore took former Oklahoma State wideout Tylan Wallace with the 131st overall pick. Wallace spent four years in school and left with...