The Ravens declined the fifth-year option of center Tyler Linderbaum in May, making 2025 a contract year for the 2022 first-round pick. Typically, that decision means that a team doesn’t want to sign a player to a long-term extension. The Ravens, for example, didn’t pick up Patrick Queen‘s fifth-year option in 2023 and let him walk in free agency the following … [Read more...] about Extension Candidate: Tyler Linderbaum
NFL Contract Notes: Fatukasi, Jackson, Diggs
A month ago, we saw the Texans re-sign defensive tackle Foley Fatukasi to keep him in Houston for the second straight season. After watching the Jaguars terminate his three-year, $30MM deal a year early, Houston added him to the roster last year for only $5.13MM on a one-year contract. In his second year with the team, Fatukasi has taken a discount to remain a Texan. In 2025, … [Read more...] about NFL Contract Notes: Fatukasi, Jackson, Diggs
Ravens Gave Rashod Bateman Permission To Seek Trade; Packers, Patriots Showed Interest
When the Cowboys traded for George Pickens in May, it was revealed that they also looked into a deal for Ravens wide receiver Rashod Bateman. Apparently, Dallas wasn’t Bateman’s only suitor this offseason; according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, he drew interest from multiple teams before agreeing to terms earlier this week to stay in Baltimore through the 2029 season. After a … [Read more...] about Ravens Gave Rashod Bateman Permission To Seek Trade; Packers, Patriots Showed Interest
Chuck Pagano Not Eyeing Another HC Job
Longtime coach Chuck Pagano returned to the Ravens as a senior defensive assistant this year, but he has no ambition to take another head coaching job in the NFL. Pagano’s success as a secondary coach and defensive coordinator during his first stint in Baltimore helped him line up a promotion to head coach with the Colts in 2012. He missed a large chunk of his first season in … [Read more...] about Chuck Pagano Not Eyeing Another HC Job
Ravens Rumors: Jackson, Flowers, Armour-Davis, Mitchell
We mentioned recently that, following the extension of wide receiver Rashod Bateman, an extension for quarterback Lamar Jackson would be at the forefront of the Ravens’ priorities for the remainder of the offseason. Well, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the plan was always for the two-time MVP to get a revised deal around this time. Though Jackson became the … [Read more...] about Ravens Rumors: Jackson, Flowers, Armour-Davis, Mitchell