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Training Camp 2026
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Baltimorican
Pro Bowler
There are plenty of reasons why the defense will be expected to dominate in TC. Still, would be nice to know if anybody upfront blocking is looking especially bad.
JoeyFlex5
Hall of Famer
I’ve heard the same
im not panicking yet
1) because it's early in camp
2) because we haven't had a single padded practice yet
3) because he's practising next to a rookie
4) because we have emery jones as a backup with potential working behind him
5) because it's only reports coming from people watching as fans and idk that i trust random fans's judgements on OL play
will be looking forward to watching the stadium practice tomorrow if i can (assuming they broadcast it again)
Tank
Hall of Famer
Ravens coordinators matching wits as they kick off the Jesse Minter era
Giana Han
7/31/2026 4:47 p.m. EDT
Thursday was offensive coordinator Declan Doyle’s day to shine. On Friday, defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver’s unit hit back.
It’s early days of Ravens training camp — and of the Jesse Minter era — but it seems as if the players are buying in to what the new staff is asking them to do.
After a relatively quiet first day, the offense and the defense have taken turns showing each other up. Meanwhile, the special teams are running countless reps as they acclimate new players into new systems.
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The Ravens coordinators spoke for the first time in training camp, and these are the biggest takeaways from their interviews.
Hitting the button
Wearing the title “offensive coordinator” is not new for Doyle. But wearing the headset to call plays is.
As Doyle stalks the practice field, directing his guys as he tries to outwit Minter’s defense, he’s been wearing the headset to get used to the feeling and rhythm of it.“It’s just hitting the button, practicing it,” Doyle said. “Obviously, this will be the first time I’m calling it down there. And, whether I’m up in the box or on the field, you hit the button. Similar to how we’re doing it with our guys, like putting them through these stressful situations.”
Doyle hasn’t decided whether he’ll be hitting that button from the box or the field, but he has a plan to figure out what the best option is.
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Doyle plans to call from the box in the first preseason game because it’s at home, and “it would be easier to be on the field at home.”
He’ll head to the field for the second game, which is in Minnesota, and then he’ll reevaluate for the third game.
“You have these games to be able to do that and kind of see what your flow is and what fits best, not only communication with the staff but the players, the quarterback, all that stuff,” Doyle said. “And so I kind of want to just go through that, a little bit of a dry run.”
Doyle is also getting a ton of practice when it comes to the plays he’s calling, not just the method of it. Minter is a new head coach, but he’s an experienced play caller and he’s not taking it easy on his offense.
Doyle also has a huge asset in Lamar Jackson, who is versatile as well as experienced at making decisions pre- and post-snap. Doyle said Jackson’s control will vary play to play.
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“There are different areas of the field where he might have a little bit more freedom because of what we’re expecting from a defense,” Doyle said. “Obviously, we’re very early in the install, and so, as we kind of get to those things and he starts to master really this system, then you start to be able to put more and more on him.”
Rushers everywhere
Despite the down year last season, Weaver is confident in the guys he has in his pass rush, and they’re rewarding that confidence.After recording 58 regular-season sacks in 2023 and 53 in 2024, the Ravens had just 30 last season.
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Jul 29, 2026The addition of former Cincinnati Bengals star Trey Hendrickson was an obvious boost, but from the starters on down, the pass rushers have put on a show.
Hendrickson, Mike Green and Tavius Robinson have been constantly pressuring Jackson. Green and Robinson have also terrorized Tyler Huntley when he’s in. Meanwhile, Skylar Thompson has had no peace because rookie Ethan Burke is constantly in the backfield.
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When asked to evaluate the defense from an offensive player’s standpoint, wide receiver Zay Flowers mentioned the pass rush.
“Sometimes you do not really know what is going on in the back end, and you watch film, and sometimes it looks like it would be a sack,” Flowers said. “[In] the back end, I feel like they are everywhere.”
Having players who can get to the quarterback on their own has made life easier for Weaver.
“You don’t have to try to scheme up these free runners or things like that,” Weaver said. “You can use the complexity of illusion to let those guys go in.”
Even so, Weaver isn’t ready to call it a success. Right now, “sacks” consist of a pass rusher getting into a position in which he has a shot at the quarterback and the ref calling the play dead. The players aren’t forced to bring the quarterback to the ground.
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“I don’t think anything’s really real until we put the pads on,” Weaver said.
Besides, he knows, after the outstanding day the defense had, the offense will be “chomping at the bit tomorrow.”
Ready to kick it
For the first time since training camp began, kicker Tyler Loop attempted a field goal in a live scenario.After Jackson and his offense failed to score in the red zone, Loop came out for a 35-yard attempt. He made it and then was asked to save the day again after a flag negated a touchdown for Huntley’s offense. He made the 34-yard field goal, too.
The third red-zone series led to his biggest challenge of the day. A sack, an incompletion and another sack pushed Thompson’s offense back in three plays. Loop made a 56-yarder.
The live reps are important for any young player but especially one whose rookie season ended in a playoff-disqualifying missed field goal. Loop spoke to the media in June for the first time since the Pittsburgh Steelers game, when he missed the kick. He said he moved on quickly and came back confident
Special teams coordinator Anthony Levine Jr. said Loop is “ready to go.”
In addition to the improvements Levine expects from any second-year player, he said he’s seen everything he wants to see from Loop thus far.
“[He’s] come in, being consistent, taking the coaching,” Levine said. “Coach Randy Brown has been working with him, very detailed, making sure that he’s staying sharp. So the most important thing what he’s doing right now is taking coaching and just having the confidence that he has in himself.”
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Tank
Hall of Famer
Ravens observations: Defense strikes back in frustrating day for Lamar Jackson, offense
Jonas Shaffer
7/31/2026 5:13 p.m. EDT
Ravens coach Jesse Minter has called quarterback Lamar Jackson one of the NFL’s most talented players. On Friday, Minter’s defense offered a reminder of its own considerable abilities.
After Jackson starred in the Ravens’ first two days of training camp, the defense got the upper hand in practice and kept it. The Ravens’ first-, second- and third-string offenses struggled to move the ball consistently in the open field and found little daylight in red-zone drills.
Jackson, bothered for much of the morning by solid coverage and an energetic pass rush, ended practice with a hopeful fourth-down throw under pressure. Tight end Mark Andrews was closest to the ball, but he wasn’t in the same ZIP code as safety Malaki Starks, who collected an easy interception.
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Unofficially, Jackson finished 5-for-8 in 11-on-11 drills and 3-for-6 in seven-on-seven drills, but explosive pass plays were rare. His first two attempts were check-downs to rookie tight end Matthew Hibner and running back Justice Hill. Jackson’s first deep pass attempt — to wide receiver Devontez Walker, well covered by cornerback Marlon Humhprey — was misplaced and long.
Jackson had opportunities for big plays. On his first seven-on-seven drop-back, wide receiver Rashod Bateman was running open down the left sideline, a stride or two clear of cornerback Nate Wiggins. But Jackson’s pass was slightly underthrown and Wiggins’ makeup speed helped him get back in phase to break up the pass. (Bateman got his revenge two plays later, separating easily from Wiggins on a deep out for a gain of about 20 yards.)
Jul 30, 2026In the red zone, drives petered out quickly for the offense. On a third-and-short, Jackson threw a screen pass out wide to wide receiver Zay Flowers. But Wiggins buzzed past Bateman’s block attempt and ended the play before Flowers got past the line of scrimmage.
Pass rush pressure was consistent throughout the practice. Trey Hendrickson, Tavius Robinson and Mike Green stood out against the first- and second-string offenses, and fellow outside linebacker Ethan Burke, an undrafted rookie who had 10.5 career sacks at Texas, continued to flash against the run and pass in third-string action.
Martin brings ‘juice’
Cornerback Keyon Martin was a surprise find for the Ravens as a rookie, making the team as an undrafted free agent and appearing in 13 games, including one start.Advertise with us
But he was well within the Miami Dolphins’ grasp last offseason, too. Ravens defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver recalled that Martin, a South Florida native, worked out at the Dolphins’ local pro day last year, when Weaver was the team’s defensive coordinator.
Martin went undrafted, then unsigned, catching on with the Ravens only after getting invited to rookie minicamp.
“So, I mean, we f----- that up, right?” Weaver joked.
Early in practice, Martin ran step for step with wide receiver LaJohntay Wester on a vertical route, forcing an overthrow from quarterback Tyler Huntley in one corner of the end zone in 11-on-11 action.
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Later, in a seven-on-seven drill, Martin broke up a back-shoulder pass from Jackson to Bateman on the other side of the end zone. A few plays later, with Huntley back in at quarterback, Martin chopped down on Walker’s arms as he a tried to secure a pass a few yards from the goal line, jarring the ball loose for another breakup.
“I love the kid,” Weaver said of Martin, who enters camp on the roster bubble. “He’s out here. He just competes every day. And he’s one of those guys where he’s not a big dude, right? So when you’re happy with those guys, sometimes they always play with a chip, and he carries it, right? He’s having fun. He’s energetic. You can feel the juice and the energy, and people feed off that. But he wants to rip your face off, right? He may not say it, but when he’s out there, he competes every single snap.”
Injury report
Outside linebacker Adisa Isaac and cornerback Bilhal Kone were activated off the physically-unable-to-perform list and returned to practice Friday as limited participants.Isaac, wearing a brace to protect his surgically repaired left elbow, took mostly mental repetitions during positional drills and did not participate in team drills. The 2024 third-round pick missed last season after injuring his elbow in the preseason, then was sidelined for most of offseason workouts. Isaac will need to show promise this preseason to secure a spot as the Ravens’ fifth outside linebacker.
Kone, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the preseason as a rookie last year, was also limited in positional drills and did not participate in team drills. He worked on movement and technique with defensive backs before joining Isaac for conditioning work. Kone, a sixth-round pick in 2025, impressed in camp last year but faces stiff competition at cornerback to make the roster.
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Defensive lineman Calais Campbell, who has not practiced as he tends to personal matters in the wake of his mother’s murder, watched the end of Friday’s workout from the defense’s sideline.
Extra points
- Kicker Tyler Loop went 3-for-3 in his first “live” field goals of training camp. He made a 35-yarder from the left hash, a 34-yarder from the right hash and a 56-yarder from the right hash.
- Rookie defensive lineman Rayshaun Benny, a seventh-round pick, had a nice two-play sequence early in 11-on-11 action. He slipped his block to stuff a run by rookie running back Adam Randall, then got into the backfield to pressure quarterback Skylar Thompson.
- Wide receivers Elijah Sarratt, Dayton Wade, rookie Octavian Smith Jr. and Wester were returning punts early in practice. Wester is the favorite to retain the job. Special teams coordinator Anthony Levine Sr. said rookie Ryan Eckley, the only punter on the 90-man roster, is “doing a great job.”
- Walker had a bobbled touchdown catch in the back of the end zone called back because of a procedural penalty on the offense. Walker had beaten cornerback Amani Oruwariye on an in-breaker and got the red-zone target from Huntley.
- Maryland’s coaching staff, including head coach Mike Locksley, attended Friday’s practice. The Ravens will practice at SECU Stadium in College Park on Saturday.
JO_75
Hall of Famer
As if we needed more proof that we should have tried to get more yards instead of settling for a 44 yard FG. Good to see Loop seemingly bouncing back, I know I and others want competition for him but maybe this new coaching staff can fix whatever issues he had last year.
heard he had a bad day yesterday but not the 2 days before.
No pads and minimal contact should favor the offense in most cases.
JoeyFlex5
Hall of Famer
I have been worried about RR since last season and I think by years end we could be talking about moving on, but I will say that blocking a guy without pads on is substantially harder.
Soon
JO_75
Hall of Famer
It's kind of crazy how we watched other teams bring in Kickers as free agents who were making all their kicks. Yet, Tucker & Loop both missed Kicks they should have made.
Tank
Hall of Famer
What video?
idk how that 91st roster spot for a backend of the roster guy is not worth bringing in literally anyone to compete with Loop
not saying he has to lose the competition - but i feel like this guy right now is wilting under any sort of pressure and he either needs to compete more to get over it or be beaten out
JO_75
Hall of Famer
I assume Loop will be given a shot to redeem himself but any shot we bring in competition now that we've seen him miss two short kicks once again.