B
Baltimore Ravens
The Ravens turned the phones into found money: B.
by ewewewe ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 7 steals
· 2 reaches
The Ravens treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending the Round 6 slot on Dominic Zvada a full 91 spots early. It nets out to a B, which feels about right.
Golday falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch. The dealing alone would carry a lesser class. A whole weekend of picks and quarterback is somehow still a want.
The Gervon Dexter Sr. deal gives the class an established piece to lean on.
Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 14 they get the heartbeat of the defense at fair value. Need was not the driver here.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Chris Johnson at the 45th overall pick is the proof. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Jake Golday in the Round 3 slot should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
They read the board right and Bud Clark was the payoff at pick No. 115. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Malik Benson slipping to No. 154 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
No edge and no loss on Marlin Klein in slot 173; it is a wash and a sensible one. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Demond Claiborne at slot 174. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Zane Durant at Round 6, Pick 16 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Dominic Zvada well ahead of where he belonged. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
A big swing on Wesley Williams at pick No. 250, well ahead of any board in the building. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Trey Zuhn III at the Round 7 slot is money in the bank, a offensive lineman taken below his worth. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.