Four impending free agent wide receivers that fit the Ravens offense

The Baltimore Ravens’ offense ranked useless final in passing in 2020 and will drastically profit from including one other dynamic cross catcher to pair with huge receiver Marquise ‘Hollywood’ Brown and tight Mark Andrews. A further playmaker would assist within the maturation of reigning league MVP Lamar Jackson as a passer.

Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh instructed reporters final Wednesday that he would welcome the addition of a big-bodied possession receiver that would present Jackson with a talented goal and big catch radius.

“I feel an enormous, bodily receiver can be superior for us – an enormous goal for Lamar [Jackson]. It might be one other tight finish too. Or a velocity man that would open protection up can be useful too. We may use anyone that’s good.”

“If we will carry an ‘Anquan Boldin’ in right here, let’s do it. Let’s do it!” Harbaugh stated. “Now, can we afford it and transfer the assets from different issues that we’d like? That’s the small print that we have now to determine.”

Boldin’s keep in Baltimore was transient however very impactful. He was a dependable and sure-handed chain transferring goal and a harmful red-zone weapon for former Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco from 2010-2012 and performed a key function within the group’s magical title run in 2012.

Assuming the rumors that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will franchise tag Chris Godwin are true and the Ravens gained’t take a flier on an damage susceptible speedster like quickly to be former Houston Texan Will Fuller, who will nonetheless be serving his suspension when the 2021 season kicks off, there are 4 different wideouts slated to hit the open market in March that match the Boldin mould however possess extra velocity and are nonetheless of their respective primes.

Allen Robinson

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Numerous Ravens followers have been banging the drum for the group to usher in the seventh-year veteran wideout. In 2020, he led the Chicago Bears in targets (151), receptions (102), and receiving yards (1,250).

His enjoying type carefully resembles Boldin’s and he focuses on making troublesome and low proportion catches look routine. Robinson has proven the sort of selflessness and anti-diva mentality that the Ravens covet of their receivers.

Kenny Golladay

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The fourth-year professional made a reputation for himself with the Detroit Lions as a big-play menace as top-of-the-line contested-catch and soar ball specialists within the league, an space the place Boldin was additionally proficient all through his profession and particularly throughout his time with the Ravens.

He recorded 20 receptions for 338 yards and a pair of touchdowns in 5 video games final season however previous to that, he had posted back-to-back years of 60 plus receptions and over 1,000 yards receiving.

Juju Smith-Schuster

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The subsequent participant is one which Ravens followers are very accustomed to, and even despise, however possible wouldn’t if he have been to cross enemy strains and signal with the group, Juju Smith-Schuster quickly to be previously of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The playful and fun-loving fourth-year professional was extra identified for his pregame TikTok antics and trash discuss in 2020 however he’s nonetheless top-of-the-line younger receivers within the league at simply 24 years previous. In 2020, he recorded 831 yards receiving, led the Steelers in receptions (97), and tied for the group lead in touchdowns (9).

He’s harmful within the slot, possessing a vertical, run after the catch skillset and purple zone potential, rolled up right into a solidly constructed 6-foot-1 and 215-pound body.

Corey Davis

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Because the Tennessee Titans declined his fifth-year contract possibility final offseason, the previous first-round choose goes to be an unrestricted free agent this 12 months and isn’t anticipated to return to Nashville.

Though he hasn’t fairly lived as much as his lofty top-10 draft standing throughout his first 4 years within the league and has but to report a single 1,000-yard season, Davis has had stable manufacturing and is coming off his finest 12 months up to now the place he set new profession highs throughout the board.

In simply 14 video games and 12 begins, he hauled in 65 of his 92 targets for 984 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns.

He averaged 15.1 yards per catch in 2020 and proved that he can persistently acquire separation, make robust catches when draped in protection, utilizing his dimension and huge catch radius to his benefit—all of that are traits that the Ravens want of their passing recreation.

Conclusion-

Whereas Robinson has acquired probably the most fanfare up to now of the receivers listed above, he may also command the very best worth. The Ravens don’t prefer to get into bidding wars for top priced free brokers and in keeping with Harbaugh, they aren’t going to plead for anybody to return aboard both.

“I’m not going to even fear about convincing anyone to do one thing. I’m not going to beg anyone to be right here,” Harbaugh stated.

“I’m not a university coach, I don’t should recruit anyone. If you wish to win, if you wish to be a part of group and also you wish to be a part of a group and love coming to work each single day, when you love soccer and wish to play within the AFC North, then come right here. In the event you don’t, when you’re all about stats and numbers and your stat line and what number of balls you catch … If that’s all you take care of, then there’s a whole lot of different groups you may play for and I sit up for lining up towards you.”

With that being stated, Golladay has struggled with accidents at occasions throughout his first 4 seasons, Davis remains to be budding, and Smith-Schuster confirmed maturity points final 12 months, which can possible make them the extra inexpensive among the many high pending free brokers on the place.

Nevertheless, I do imagine that Robinson would an ideal match for the Ravens offense as a result of he possesses three of crucial traits that groups search for in any participant at any place, on both aspect of the ball. Selflessness, playmaking potential, and most significantly, availability.

He has been a revered chief in each locker room he’s been in, performed a full 16 recreation season in 4 of his first seven years, has solely missed one season resulting from an damage which was a torn ACL in 2017, and has elevated his manufacturing every year he’s been faraway from his reconstructive knee surgical procedure, together with back-to-back seasons of 90 plus catches and over 1,100 yards receiving.

Golladay, Smith-Schuster, or Davis may possible be signed at a cheaper price. However it wouldn’t be by a lot. Including a excessive character and high-level producer like Allen might be the ultimate piece into making the Ravens passing recreation a well-oiled machine that persistently challenges opposing defenses to respect their aerial assault simply as a lot as they do the bottom recreation.

“We wish to have actually good gamers at each place,” Basic Supervisor Eric DeCosta stated Monday. “We would like playmakers. We would like guys that may stretch the sector. We would like guys that may catch the ball inside on third downs. We would like guys that may scare the protection and permit us to be versatile and balanced up entrance on offense. We don’t wish to be a group that’s pressured to do something; we wish to be a group that may dictate to the protection what we wish to do.