2026 NFL Draft Gameday Thread

[Argentina Raven]

The movement off the ball comes from changes of pace; the deceleration is just another action in the process of creating that change of pace.
From now on, if they expect someone who weighs 240 pounds with Gibbs' speed to do the same thing as Zay Flowers, they're not going to find him, or at best, he'll be injured because there's no way the human body can handle that.
So a linebacker touches him and deflects him from his routes? Well, in the same way that Henry gets hit and deflected from his route, oh wait, right. It's solved with training.
It's true that he needs to polish some things, but at 21, he has plenty of time.
As a blocker, watch Oregon's games and you'll see him blocking in various spots; focus on the 18 and you'll see it.
They're asking a 21-year-old prospect to be Gronkowsky, and there's only one Gronkowsky.
He's the offensive version of Hamilton; line him up there and he'll be a headache for defenses. It might fail, or it might not.

But it's a good prospect with too much hate

 

[RaineV1]

for sure, the missing context though is why people hated the pick
sometimes it's the player
and other times, it's because of who else was available that we passed on

in recent times, who do you think are the most hated at the time Ravens 1st round picks?
Marlon Humphrey?
Hayden Hurst?
Odafe Oweh?

Probably Hurst. People would have loved that draft if we had simply taken Lamar at that spot rather than the trade up to get him.

 

[Nurps]

the opposite - i wont be shutting up about sadiq until he's good

Rossi every game this season.... "Sadiq ass"

 

[RavensMania]

1. Where are the Ravens getting another third round pick from? If you're getting a third back in a move up, it's costing you next years 1st, not pick 45. 31 NFL teams are saying no thank you to some offer involving giving up 45 and getting like pick 80 back. Horrendous deal for the acquiring team. If you're getting a pick back at all to give up 45, its definitely a day 3 pick, and I'd bet it's not a 4th rounder either. Draft trade value charts are not historically accurate when it comes to determining trade value.
2. Many of the players Hendrickson would play ahead of had very little sack production last year to replace. That's how you get 30 as a team. Hendrickson doesn't need to carry the slack. Madubuike does. Mike Green does. They had low sack numbers. If you get even one additional sack out of both of them, you're at league average already.
3. Paying for Crosby is acquiring proven talent with a track record of on-field output. Trading multiple assets to acquire Bain is, like every draft pick, a totally "maybe". Maybe at his peak, he's Oweh. Nobody knows. That's why unless you feel like he's a true game wrecker, you sit and wait to see if he falls, or you let him slide further and make a trade that involves giving up picks you don't actually care about.
4. Forcing yourself to use a 3rd rounder on a Center basically means he has to be good. Otherwise, you're just worse on the Oline. You want to take a player, not a position.

Not saying we are getting an additional 3rd round pick and agree with most of what you are saying. That being said I don't think we need to give up a 1st round pick to acquire the 32nd pick. If you go back to 2018 we traded a mid 2nd round pick and the 2019 2nd round pick among some mid round picks and still ended up with the 32nd pick without having to give up a 1st rounder.

 

[JAAM]

Hurst and Queen were two picks I simply didn't understand (in the Lamar era).

How come you didn’t like the Queen pick? I didn’t mind it, and I think that first round was pretty weak from what I remember

 

[allblackraven]

for sure, the missing context though is why people hated the pick
sometimes it's the player
and other times, it's because of who else was available that we passed on

in recent times, who do you think are the most hated at the time Ravens 1st round picks?
Marlon Humphrey?
Hayden Hurst?
Odafe Oweh?

Quite a few here loved Marlon pick

 

[rmcjacket23]

Not saying we are getting an additional 3rd round pick and agree with most of what you are saying. That being said I don't think we need to give up a 1st round pick to acquire the 32nd pick. If you go back to 2018 we traded a mid 2nd round pick and the 2019 2nd round pick among some mid round picks and still ended up with the 32nd pick without having to give up a 1st rounder.

We were talking up trading up from 14 to 7-8 and what it would take to do that.

 

[rmcjacket23]

Quite a few here loved Marlon pick

I did. Thought he was maybe a little "off the radar" from what fans were expecting that year, but he was pretty prototypical of what Deen Pees wanted as a Corner.

 

[SepticeyePoe]

Quite a few here loved Marlon pick

I remember the reaction being more mixed at the time, but that might have been less about Marlon and more about who could have been picked instead

 

[cobrajet]

Ladarius webb son is in draft? Wtf

Ladarius was one of my favorite Ravens players of all time. I really wish he would have stayed healthy.

 

[Grim]

We won’t hear from rossi for a while if we pick Sadiq

Someone will need to do a wellness check on a few of us if we draft Sadiq.

 

[gtalk12]

Probably Hurst. People would have loved that draft if we had simply taken Lamar at that spot rather than the trade up to get him.

If it was Calvin Ridley and Lamar it would have been time to turn up

 

[Grim]

If it was Calvin Ridley and Lamar it would have been time to turn up

The irony is DeCosta made that statement about drafting older guys means they are limited on contracts and aren't "3 contract players" or whatever (I am paraphrasing).

So in that sense, it's interesting if we avoid it now since we drafted Hurst who was older.

 

[Rusfan]

What pick would make you freak out? I'm asking anyone who wants to answer.......

Taylen Green

 

[Jacquouille]

Going to bed. See y'all at 2AM

 

[QtR Nevermore]

What pick would make you freak out? I'm asking anyone who wants to answer.......

I'd freak out most if we picked another DB, even if he's the BPA at that point.

It's just an over-investment to go there again when we're going to play with 5 or 6 DBs. To oversimplify, why spend a 1st on 16 - 20% of your coverage unit rather than 25% of your front?

 

[Sooky]

Quite a few here loved Marlon pick

I loved it. Super athletic and seemed overshadowed by the other freaks on that Alabama team. I remember everyone freaking out saying we reached 20-30 picks too early.

People will say he’s ass now, but he has given Baltimore many great years.

 

[allblackraven]

I remember the reaction being more mixed at the time, but that might have been less about Marlon and more about who could have been picked instead

I can't remember a lot from back then but don't think there were too many 1st rounders better than Marvin. Tre White, TJ Watt?

Some good receivers went off the board later.

 

[QtR Nevermore]

I loved it. Super athletic and seemed overshadowed by the other freaks on that Alabama team. I remember everyone freaking out saying we reached 20-30 picks too early.

People will say he’s ass now, but he has given Baltimore many great years.

The whole reach thing is overdone. The mock drafters are so scared of being an outlier so they cluster the players exactly the same and by this point everyone is so used to seeing player X at 23 so someone else mocking him at 17 is crazy for reaching.

Then the real draft happens and we forget all about that fictional draft order that seemed set in stone.

 

[allblackraven]

if you're taking a TE in the first round, it had better be someone like Brock Bowers who's genuinely freaky in the fact that he's 240lbs but can actually run routes like a receiver which means you don't have to worry about his weight and how much he'll hold up as a blocker

i think he's also the only the top TE in the league who was drafted in the 1st round

McBride, LaPorta were 2nd round picks
Andrews, Kittle were 3rd round picks

only 1st round picks who are top TEs in the league right now and havent been underwhelming selections: Bowers and Hockenson (and even Hockenson is on his 2nd team)

Kittle was taken in 5th.