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Ravens Could Trade First-Round Pick
The Baltimore Ravens may move on from their first-round pick in the NFL Draft.
The Baltimore Ravens hold the No. 30 overall pick in next week's NFL Draft, but it may not stay that way come draft night.
The Ravens are always a team keen on making moves, but ESPN's Jamison Hensley ponders whether Baltimore could trade out of the first round.
"Baltimore, which has the No. 30 overall pick, might be open to acquiring more picks because it needs to build through the draft after giving a big-money deal to Jackson," Hensley writes. "Then, there are the teams like the Las Vegas Raiders (No. 44 pick), New York Giants (No. 47) and Los Angeles Rams (No. 52), who could covet a young quarterback and might want to leap into the bottom of the first round to get their targeted passer. The Ravens understand the incentive of getting a quarterback in the first round instead of the second is gaining that fifth-year option, which allows the team to have an additional season of contractual control over the player."
After the first wave of quarterbacks, which features Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye, comes a group with J.J. McCarthy, Bo Nix and Michael Penix Jr., all of whom could be available late in the first round. It's possible that teams would feel the urge to move up back into the first round to take one of them, and the Ravens could be an ideal trade partner.
