A Look at Ravens First-Round Picks, Grades

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OWINGS MILLS, Md, — The Ravens had success in the first round of the NFL draft, selecting three NFL Hall-of-Famers.
However, they also had a couple of rare misses.
Here's a breakdown of the Ravens' history with first-round picks and their grades.
1996 — No 4: Jonathan Ogden, OT, UCLA
Grade: A+
No. 26 Ray Lewis, LB, Miami
Grade: A+
1997 — No. 4 Peter Boulware, LB, Florida State
Grade: A
1998 — No. 10 Duane Starks, CB, Miami
Grade: B
1999 — No. 11 Chris McAlister, CB, Arizona
Grade: B
2000 — No. 5 Jamal Lewis, RB, Tennessee
Grade: A-
No. 10 Travis Taylor, WR, Florida
Grade: C-
2001 —No. 31 Todd Heap, TE, Arizona State
Grade: A
2002 — No. 24 Ed Reed, S, Miami
Grade: A+
2003 — No. 10 Terrell Suggs, LB, Arizona State
Grade: A+
No. 19 Kyle Boller, QB, California
Grade: C-
2004 — No pick
2005 — No. 22 Mark Clayton, WR, Oklahoma
Grade: D
2006 — No. 12 Haloti Ngata, DT, Oregon
Grade: A-
2007 — No. 29 Ben Grubbs, G, Auburn
Grade: B
2008 — No. 18 Joe Flacco, QB, Delaware
Grade: A
2009 — No. 23 Michael Oher, OT, Ole Miss
Grade: B-
2010 — No pick
2011 — No. 27 Jimmy Smith, CB, Colorado
Grade: B
2012 — No pick
2013 — No. 32 Matt Elam, S, Florida
Grade: F
2014 — No. 17 C.J. Mosley, LB, Alabama
Grade: A-
2015 — No. 26 Breshad Perriman, WR, UCF
Grade: F
2016 — No. 6 Ronnie Stanley, OT, Notre Dame
Grade: B+
2017 — No. 16 Marlon Humphrey, CB, Alabama
Grade: A-
2018 — No. 25 Hayden Hurst, TE, South Carolina
Grade: C
No. 32 Lamar Jackson, QB, Louisville
Grade: A
2019 — No. 25 Marquise Brown, WR, Oklahoma
Grade: C+
2020 — No. 28 Patrick Queen, LB, LSU
Grade: C+
2021 — No. 27 Rashod Bateman, WR, Minnesota
Grade: B+
No. 31 Odafe Oweh, OLB, Penn State
Grade: B+

Twitter: @toddkarpovich Email: todd.karpovich@gmail.com Skype: todd.karpovich Todd Karpovich has been a contributor for ESPN, Forbes, the Associated Press, Lindy's, and The Baltimore Sun, among other media outlets nationwide. He is the co-author of “If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Baltimore Ravens Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box,” “Skipper Supreme: Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles,” and the author of “Manchester United (Europe's Best Soccer Clubs).” Karpovich, a Baltimore native, is a graduate of Calvert Hall College high school, Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, and has a Masters of Science from Towson University.
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