Moving closer to two decades spent with the Ravens, longtime head coach John Harbaugh now has the contract extension to get him past that threshold.
Preparing for his 18th season in Baltimore and entering the final year of his previous contract, Harbaugh agreed to a three-year extension that now takes him through 2028. The 62-year-old is only the third head coach in the history of the franchise and the only one hired by current owner Steve Bisciotti.
Harbaugh led the Ravens to a Super Bowl championship in the 2012 season and has guided them to 12 playoff appearances in his 17 years. He has the second-longest tenure of any active NFL head coach behind Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin.
With a career 172-104 record in the regular season, Harbaugh expressed very little concern when asked about his contract status at the conclusion of the 2024 campaign. The extension was widely viewed as a formality despite Baltimore’s disappointing loss at Buffalo in the divisional round. In the past, Bisciotti has stated a preference not to have a head coach simply playing out the final year of his contract.
“I’m happy, man. I’m happy, and however that goes, I trust God,” Harbaugh said in late January. “I trust the people I work with every day who I love, who are my friends, but more importantly, we’re on a mission together. As long as that goes, as long as God permits that to go, I’m all about it. I’m fired up for it, and I’m not worried about those kinds of things. They take care of themselves.”
While the Ravens own a better regular-season winning percentage (.672) since superstar quarterback Lamar Jackson’s 2018 arrival than they had over Harbaugh’s first 10 years as head coach (.587), their lack of success in the postseason has been a point of contention with Baltimore winning only four playoff games since Super Bowl XLVII. The Ravens won nine postseason games over Harbaugh’s first five seasons as head coach.
Despite the 28-year-old Jackson being one of the league’s very best quarterbacks, Baltimore has gone a disappointing 3-5 in playoff games started by the two-time NFL MVP.
