With notable free-agent activity and the scrapped trade for Maxx Crosby in the rearview mirror, the Ravens and the other 31 teams have shifting their attention to the 2026 NFL draft.
Officially awarded four compensatory picks earlier this month, general manager Eric DeCosta will have two extra choices at the end of the fifth round as well as a pair of additional seventh-round selections to give Baltimore a total of 11 draft picks. That’s good news with the Ravens still needing to address positions in all three phases of the game.
That collection includes the 14th overall pick after DeCosta backed out of the Crosby trade on March 10th and signed four-time Pro Bowl edge rusher Trey Hendrickson the following day.
“The reality is there are many, many different ways for us to get better as a football team, whether it’s free agency, the draft, undrafted free agency, trades,” DeCosta said. “There are a lot of things we can do. I think we’re headed in the right direction.”
Headlining the list of roster needs is the interior offensive line with the Ravens needing to replace three-time Pro Bowl center Tyler Linderbaum and add legitimate competition for the right guard spot.
Here’s where the Ravens are scheduled to pick in next month’s draft:
First round: 14th overall
Second round: 45th overall
Third round: 80th overall
Fourth round: 115th overall
Fifth round: 154th overall
Fifth round: 162nd overall
Fifth round: 173rd overall (compensatory)
Fifth round: 174th overall (compensatory)
Sixth round: 211th overall
Seventh round: 250th overall (compensatory)
Seventh round: 253rd overall (compensatory)
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And just for a fun — or not so pleasant — trip down memory lane, below is a look at past players selected by Baltimore in each of these slots (or very close to it):
14th overall: S Kyle Hamilton (2022)
Skinny: After falling into Baltimore’s lap in the middle of the first round, Hamilton remains on a path to eventually being part of the organization’s defensive Mount Rushmore after being selected to three Pro Bowls and voted a first-time All-Pro safety twice over his first four seasons.
45th overall: OLB David Ojabo (2022)
Skinny: While the 2022 draft class is already being regarded as one of the best in franchise history, injuries derailed the promise that Ojabo showed as a standout edge rusher at the University of Michigan and made him the most disappointing of Baltimore’s 11 draft choices that year.
80th overall: S Terrence Brooks (79th, 2014)
Skinny: A serious knee injury late in his rookie season stunted his potential and development in Baltimore, but Brooks still went on to have an eight-year career in the NFL as a special-teams contributor and defensive reserve for four other teams.
115th overall: TE Dennis Pitta (114th, 2010)
Skinny: Though multiple hip injuries cut his career short, Pitta was a favorite target of Joe Flacco for years and a big-time contributor in the 2012 postseason run with three touchdown catches, one of those coming in the Super Bowl XLVII victory in New Orleans.
154th overall: LB Ron Rogers (1998)
Skinny: You don’t often see the Ravens give up on players taken at this point in the draft too quickly, but the Georgia Tech product was cut at the end of the preseason and was quickly off the NFL radar after team officials never saw the potential he had flashed in college.
162nd overall: WR Jordan Lasley (2018)
Skinny: Maturity concerns and inconsistent hands led to Lasley’s fall in the draft, and a scuffle with a teammate and his decision to throw a football — that had a tracking chip in it — into the pond next to the practice field led to his release in 2019 and reporters nicknaming the body of water “Lake Lasley.”
8173rd overall: OT Tony Pashos (2003)
Skinny: Eventually blossoming into a starting right tackle for the 2006 team that went 13-3, Pashos signed a lucrative deal with Jacksonville the following March and started a total of 82 games over an NFL career that spanned a decade, making him one of the better fifth-round picks in Ravens history.
174th overall: QB Troy Smith (2007)
Skinny: One still wonders how the 2008 season might have played out if a severe tonsil infection hadn’t hospitalized Smith during the preseason and prompted new head coach John Harbaugh to start the rookie Flacco, but the 2006 Heisman Trophy winner lasted four years in the NFL and played in Canada.
211th overall: OT Greg Senat (212th, 2018)
Skinny: Part of Ozzie Newsome’s final draft class as general manager, the 6-foot-6, 305-pound Wagner product was waived early in the 2019 season and eventually landed in Dallas to appear in 10 games as a backup and special-teams contributor during the 2020 campaign.
250th overall: C Mike Mabry (2003), S Sanoussi Kane (2024)
Skinny: Mabry lasted just one summer in Baltimore before going on to play in NFL Europe and the Arena Football League, and Kane appeared in 22 games primarily as a special-teams contributor before being waived and signing with Tennessee last December.
253rd overall: DB Antwoine Sanders (258th, 2003)
Skinny: A University of Utah product, Sanders is the latest pick in franchise history and didn’t even make it through his first training camp before being waived with an injury, but he did play for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL a couple years later.
