With the free-agent signing period officially beginning at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the Ravens addressed their six exclusive-rights free agents by tendering each to one-year deals.
Linebackers Josh Bynes, Adrian Hamilton, and D.J. Bryant and safeties Omar Brown, Anthony Levine, and Brynden Trawick were all tendered contracts, according to USA Today’s Tom Pelissero.
These moves were considered nothing but a formality as exclusive-rights free agents have two or fewer accrued seasons in the league and own no negotiating rights. In order for the Ravens to retain the rights to these players, they simply had to tender contracts at the league minimum based on their respective service times in the NFL.
Baltimore signed linebacker Albert McClellan to a two-year contract over the weekend and chose not to tender a contract to wide receiver Tandon Doss as these two represented the team’s only restricted free agents. The Ravens are reportedly still open to the possibility of signing Doss to a deal, but he was set to become an unrestricted free agent on Tuesday afternoon.
Ravens tender contracts to Bynes, five other exclusive-rights free agents
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