As a lead-up to the 2024 NFL draft, we’ve broken down the current depth chart of every NFL team and identified the biggest draft and team needs for the Baltimore Ravens.
You can find additional team-by-team draft needs articles and other draft content on our 2024 NFL Draft Hub.
Baltimore Ravens Needs: Top Positions of Need in 2024
- Offensive Line
- Wide Receiver
- Defensive Back
What Picks Do the Baltimore Ravens Have in 2024?
The Baltimore Ravens have 9 picks in the 2024 NFL Draft, including:
- Round 1 (30)
- Round 2 (62)
- Round 3 (93)
- Round 4 (113)
- Round 4 (130)
- Round 5 (165)
- Round 6 (218)
- Round 7 (228)
- Round 7 (250)
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Baltimore Ravens Draft Capital Stats
Our Sharp Draft Value Rank is a valuation of draft capital based on a combination of average performance delivered and average dollars earned on second contracts.
This is based on two public models: performance delivered based on draft slot (the AV model created by Chase Stuart) and contractual earnings in non-rookie deals based upon draft slot (the OTC model created by Brad Spielberger and Jason Fitzgerald).
- Ravens Sharp Draft Value Rank: 23 of 32 teams
- Ravens AV Model Draft Value Rank: 24 of 32 teams
- Ravens OTC Model Draft Value Rank: 21 of 32 teams
Baltimore Ravens Draft Value vs. Other Teams:
The Ravens’ draft value is 11% lower than the league average of all 32 teams. 22 other teams have more draft value entering the 2024 NFL Draft.
Baltimore Ravens Draft Prediction:
Brendan Donahue has the Ravens selecting Jordan Morgan (OT, Arizona) with the 30th overall pick in his most recent 2024 NFL Mock Draft.
Mock draft expert Ryan McCrystal believes the Ravens could target a corner like Cooper DeJean (CB, Iowa) with their top pick at No. 30 overall in the first round.
Baltimore Ravens Strength of Schedule, 2024
The Baltimore Ravens have the 4th-hardest NFL strength of schedule for the 2024 NFL season.
Baltimore Ravens Offense: Depth Chart, Analysis & Draft Needs
Rich Hribar breaks down the offensive depth chart by position for the Baltimore Ravens, identifying areas where the team could improve in the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft.
Quarterback Depth Chart, Ravens:
- Lamar Jackson
- Josh Johnson
- Malik Cunningham
After missing crucial chunks of the 2021 and 2022 seasons, Lamar Jackson was able to stay healthy for a full season.
With Jackson on the field, the Ravens went 13-3 in the regular season.
The Ravens now have a 58-19 record in the regular season with Jackson as their starting quarterback and an 8-14 record in games he does start since drafting him in 2018.
Jackson won his second MVP Award.
He set career highs with a 67.2% completion rate and 8.0 yards per pass attempt.
His 12.0 yards per completion was his highest since his rookie season.
The Ravens are now just looking to get over the hump with more postseason success.
Splitting the postseason with a win and a loss, the team’s postseason record with Jackson is 2-4.
Jackson signed a five-year extension last offseason, which has his salary escalating and providing some restrictions that this team did not face with him on his rookie deal.
After a cap hit of $22.1 million in 2023, Jackson jumps up to $32.4 million this season and then $43.7 million, $74.7 million, and $74.7 million cap hits over the remainder of his deal.
The Ravens lost Tyler Huntley this offseason in free agency.
Behind Jackson, they have veteran Josh Johnson and project Malik Cunningham on one-year deals. The team has exclusive rights on Cunningham after 2024.
Running Back Depth Chart, Ravens:
- Derrick Henry
- Justice Hill
- Keaton Mitchell
- Owen Wright
- Patrick Ricard (FB)
With the Ravens already losing Gus Edwards in free agency, Keaton Mitchell suffering a late-season injury that could impact the start of 2024, and J.K. Dobbins no longer on the roster, Baltimore was aggressive in not kicking the can this season on their backfield.
This team has thrown a lot at the running back position over the past four seasons.
Their issues with retaining a healthy backfield go beyond just the ill fortune of Dobbins, as we have seen the ghosts of Devonta Freeman, Le’Veon Bell, Kenyan Drake, and Melvin Gordon log snaps for this team over the past three seasons.
With that, Baltimore added Derrick Henry on a two-year contract.
Henry turned 30 this January and is coming off a career-low 4.2 yards per carry last season with the Titans.
He also played just 53% of the snaps last season, his lowest rate in a season since 2018.
Over his previous four seasons, Henry played 64%, 66%, 71%, and 67% of the snaps.
But make no mistake, Henry was still a workhorse back.
Despite giving away more snaps in 2023, Henry still led the NFL in rushing attempts for the fourth time over the past five seasons.
When Henry was on the field, he was getting the football.
The Titans ran the ball on 58.2% of the snaps that Henry played last season.
The only running back with a higher rate who also played more than 200 snaps was Tyler Allgeier (60.6%).
If looking down the board a few pegs, Gus Edwards sported a 54.3% rate, which was the sixth highest among running backs.
Although Henry did have some peripheral decline, he also still managed to clear 1,000 yards rushing and rush for double-digit touchdowns for the sixth consecutive season.
Henry found paydirt that many times on a Tennessee team that ranked 27th in points per game (17.9) and was 26th in points per drive (1.65).
He is joining a Baltimore team that was fourth in the NFL in points per game (27.7) and sixth in points per drive (2.35).
The Ravens had 74 red zone possessions in 2023 (fifth) while the Titans had 48 (23rd), and Henry still found his way to double-digit touchdowns.
The Ravens ran the football 59.6% of the time in the red zone, which was second in the league behind the Eagles (63.0%).
Going further under the hood, Henry’s 8.2% explosive run rate was a career low.
At his age, we should expect some recoil in that area.
But Henry remained a bulldozer, ranking eight in the league in yards after contact per rush out of 49 running backs to carry the ball 100 or more times.
Henry has rarely played behind a good offensive line in his career.
Of those same 49 running backs, he was 44th in yards gained before contact in 2023.
Baltimore running backs averaged 1.59 yards before contact per rush in 2023, which was sixth in the league.
There are questions about the current state of this Baltimore offensive line, but this should be an overall upgrade in the offensive environment for Henry.
Justice Hill is coming off a career-high 112 touches and 5.3 yards per touch. He had a lock of passing situations, running 233 pass routes while the next closest running back was at 165.
Hill will concede touches with the addition of Henry but should retain that role in passing situations since Henry has always shared those opportunities with another back.
Hill is only under contract for 2024.
Keaton Mitchell looked electric with 8.7 yards per touch on his limited sample as a rookie.
Unfortunately, Mitchell tore his ACL in December.
His surgery was on December 30, which puts the start of the season right at a nine-month recovery period, but we should expect the Ravens to take his return slow.
The Ravens could add another body here given Henry’s age, Hill’s expiring contract, and Mitchell potentially not being ready to start the season. But if they do add another back, it will likely come on Day 3.
Wide Receiver Depth Chart, Ravens:
- Zay Flowers
- Rashod Bateman
- Nelson Agholor
- Tylan Wallace
- Deonte Harty
- Sean Ryan
- Scotty Washington
The Ravens selected Zay Flowers in the first round last spring, and he immediately led the team in receiving.
Flowers caught 77-of-108 targets for 858 yards and five touchdowns, adding a rushing touchdown to his totals.
He ended the season third among rookie wide receivers in route participation, running a route on 85.6% of the team dropbacks.
Flowers finished seventh among rookies in yards per route run (1.65) and sixth in target rate per route (20.7%).
Behind Flowers, this is the same old tale for the Ravens.
Even when they have a hit on a rookie wide receiver, they are still chasing the position overall.
The rest of this depth chart is not inspiring.
Rashod Bateman enters this season in the final season of his rookie contract while it is unlikely that the Ravens will pick up his fifth-year option.
Bateman did play in a career-high 16 games after two injury-filled seasons, but he only caught 32 passes for 367 yards and one touchdown.
After averaging 42.9 and 47.5 yards receiving per game over his first two seasons, Bateman averaged 22.9 yards per game last season.
Bateman ran nine fewer pass routes on the season than Nelson Agholor, who caught 35 passes for 381 yards and four touchdowns.
Agholor will turn 31 this May, failing to reach 500 yards in a season since 2020.
The only wide receiver currently on this roster who is signed beyond the 2024 season is Flowers.
With Jackson’s contract spiking, the Ravens have to go back to the well to find upside-receiving production paired with lower-end monetary commitments.
Tight End Depth Chart, Ravens:
- Mark Andrews
- Isaiah Likely
- Charlie Kolar
This tight end unit remains a strength and has picked up the lack of wide receiver production over Jackson’s tenure.
Mark Andrews is still one of the league’s best tight ends, but he has now missed multiple games in each of the past two seasons and in three of the past four.
Andrews only appeared in 10 games in 2023.
He missed the season opener with a quad injury and then was knocked out for the rest of the regular season with a fractured ankle in November.
Andrews did return for the AFC Championship but was only able to play 31% of the snaps.
When on the field last season, Andrews was third among all tight ends in yards per route run (1.96) and ranked ninth in target rate per route (22.0%).
Andrews still has two seasons remaining on his current contract.
Isaiah Likely has been solid in relief of Andrews over his first two NFL seasons.
From Weeks 12-18 with Andrews sidelined, Likely caught 21 passes for 322 yards and five touchdowns.
Over his two years in the league, Likely has averaged 1.72 yards per route run with a target on 17.8% of his routes with Andrews on the sideline. He also has seven touchdowns on those snaps.
Like Andrews, Likely’s contract runs through 2025.
The same is true for Charlie Kolar, who the team selected alongside Likely in the 2022 draft.
Kolar went from 36 snaps played as a rookie up to 230 snaps last season.
Largely serving as a run blocker, Kolar caught seven passes for 87 yards and a touchdown.
Offensive Line Depth Chart, Ravens:
LT: Ronnie Stanley, Patrick Mekari, TyKeem Doss
LG: Andrew Vorhees, Malaesala Aumavae-Laulu
C: Tyler Linderbaum
RG: Ben Cleveland, Tashawn Manning
RT: Daniel Faalele, Josh Jones
This is the area that needs the most immediate attention for the Baltimore offense.
The Ravens lost three starters from their line this offseason with Kevin Zeitler, Morgan Moses, and John Simpson all changing teams.
Simpson and Zeitler were the top two players in snaps played on the line in 2023.
Both guard spots and right tackle are open for competition, while the team needs tackle insurance on the left side due to Ronnie Stanley’s recent availability.
Stanley missed another four games last season, his fifth consecutive season missing multiple games. He has not played a full NFL season since being drafted in 2016.
Stanley was only brought back on a one-year contract.
Contractual depth is a looming need for this unit.
The only linemen on the roster signed beyond 2024 are Tyler Linderbaum, Malaesala Aumavae-Laulu, Andrew Vorhees, and Daniel Faalele.
Vorhees was selected in the seventh round last season but did not get on the field as a rookie.
Ben Cleveland was selected in the third round of 2021 but has only started seven games over three seasons. He enters the final season of his rookie contract.
Both of those players are penciled in as starters right now on the interior.
Faalele is the early leader to play right tackle as the roster currently sits.
Faalele was selected in the fourth round in 2022. He has just one career start, playing 16% and 18% of the snaps over his first two years in the league.
Baltimore Ravens Defense: Depth Chart, Analysis & Draft Needs
Raymond Summerlin breaks down the defensive depth chart by position for the Baltimore Ravens, identifying areas where the team could improve in the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft.
Defensive Line Depth Chart, Ravens:
- Justin Madubuike
- Michael Pierce
- Brent Urban
- Broderick Washington
- Travis Jones
- Rayshad Nichols
- Bravvion Roy
The Ravens allowed 4.5 yards per running back carry (27th) and finished 30th in yards before contact allowed per RB run last season.
Baltimore kept this group together this offseason, re-signing both Justin Madubuike and Brent Urban.
Madubuike earned a four-year, $98 million contract that will keep him in Baltimore through the 2027 season.
He led the team with 13 sacks a season ago, getting pressure on 13.4% of his pass rush snaps.
That pressure rate was a jump from his first three seasons, raising some concerns about a contract-year surge, but Madubuike was solid in 2022, too.
Michael Pierce finished 2023 with 8 run stuffs and a tackle on 16.8% of his run defense snaps, 18th among all qualifying defensive linemen.
It was a good bounce-back season for him after he played just 11 games from 2020-2022.
Urban, Travis Jones, and Broderick Washington made up the rest of the rotation last season.
A 2022 third-round pick, Jones specifically showed well against the run, getting a stuff on 5.4% of his defensive snaps.
Urban and Washington combined for 5 sacks.
Urban is the only player mentioned above who is heading into a contract year.
EDGE Depth Chart, Ravens:
- Odafe Oweh
- Kyle Van Noy
- David Ojabo
- Tavius Robinson
- Malik Hamm
The Ravens finished 8th in pressure rate and logged 60 sacks in 2023, the most in the league.
Jadeveon Clowney, who accounted for 9.5 of those sacks, left in free agency, but the team did bring back Kyle Van Noy.
Van Noy was third on the team with 9 sacks and sported an impressive 15.3% pressure rate.
He finished 18th among edge rushers in ESPN’s pass rush win rate metric.
Odafe Oweh finished with just 5 sacks on a similar number of pass rushes as Van Noy, but he got pressure on 17.2% of those rushes.
Oweh ranked 13th among eligible pass rushers in pressure rate, a jump from his first two seasons.
Now the Ravens need him to turn those pressures into sacks heading into what could be the final year of his rookie deal if Baltimore declines his fifth-year option.
The Ravens did not get much from the rest of this depth chart last season.
2022 second-round pick David Ojabo has played five games in two seasons and remains mostly an unknown.
Tavius Robinson earned some playing time his rookie season, but his 5.8% pressure rate leaves a lot to be desired.
The Ravens could use an addition here.
Linebacker Depth Chart, Ravens:
- Roquan Smith
- Trenton Simpson
- Chris Board
- Malik Harrison
- Josh Ross
The departure of Patrick Queen is a blow to this defense, but one they likely saw coming.
Roquan Smith remains and will continue in his every-down role.
Smith was second behind Queen with 10 run stuffs last season and recorded a tackle on 22.8% of his run defense snaps.
That tackle rate was 7th among eligible linebackers.
A third-round pick last year, Trenton Simpson is the obvious replacement for Queen, but he was only on the field for 46 defense snaps last season.
It remains to be seen if he is up to the task.
Chris Board was brought in during free agency.
He played for the Ravens over the first four years of his career, but he has been more of a factor on special teams.
Board played one defensive snap for the Patriots last season.
This looks like a place for a veteran addition rather than a rookie, but the Ravens could still add here in the draft.
Cornerback Depth Chart, Ravens:
- Marlon Humphrey
- Brandon Stephens
- Arthur Maulet
- Ar’Darius Washington
- Trayvon Mullen
- Jalyn Armour-Davis
- Damarion Williams
- Ka’Dar Hollman
- Christian Matthew
- Tre Swilling
The Ravens allowed 5.9 yards per pass attempt, the best mark in the league, and finished 2nd in EPA per dropback.
Those numbers are especially impressive given the struggles Baltimore had keeping corners on the field.
Brandon Stephens ended up playing the most snaps of this group, finishing with a solid 6.9 yards per target allowed.
He should once again be a big factor heading into the final year of his rookie deal.
Marlon Humphrey was limited to 10 games, but he remained a very good option when on the field.
Humphrey allowed just 6.1 yards per target and a 69.2 passer rating in coverage.
Ar’Darius Washington opened the year as the slot corner, but he only appeared in two games thanks to injury.
Arthur Maulet was the primary corner option there the rest of the way, although the Ravens did often use their safeties there.
He re-signed on a modest two-year deal this offseason.
The Ravens might have enough here to get by, but another addition makes sense given the lack of proven depth.
Safety Depth Chart, Ravens:
- Kyle Hamilton
- Marcus Williams
With Geno Stone leaving in free agency, the Ravens currently have just two safeties on the roster, but those two happen to be pretty good.
A 2022 first-round pick, Kyle Hamilton earned an All-Pro nod last season after playing everywhere on Baltimore’s defense.
Despite playing a large percentage of his snaps as the slot corner, Hamilton was 8th among qualifying safeties in yards per target allowed.
He also grabbed 4 interceptions and 3 sacks.
Marcus Williams was not quite at that level last season but was still a quality player.
He finished with a solid 7.0 yards allowed per target and forced an incompletion on 35.7% of his targets according to PFF.
The issue here is depth, especially if the Ravens want to continue using Hamilton to help out the corner group.
This is a position the Ravens could attack with an early pick.
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